1) Beak membrane 2) Beak part 3) Bill section 4) Bird beak part 5) Bird bill part 6) Bird membrane 7) Bird-bill area 8) Bird-bill part 9) Enshroud 10) French word used in English 11) Smear with wax, old-style 12) To cover or close with wax 13) To wax 14) Vehicles in M*A*S*H 15) Word with cloth 16) Wrap
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The 'waxy' part at the top of a raptors beak that surrounds the nares or nostrils. Generally this is yellow in colour, but on a young falcon or adult Gyr the cere is blue.
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• (n.) The soft naked sheath at the base of the beak of birds of prey, parrots, and some other birds. See Beak. • (v. t.) To wax; to cover or close with wax.
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(from the article `psittaciform`) All parrots possess a cere, an area of soft skin surrounding the nostrils; it may be bare or covered with small, soft feathers. In adult budgerigars ...
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The soft, fleshy part of a raptors beak where the nostrils are located.
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http://www.conservewildlifenj.org/glossary/
The fleshy area located at the base of the upper beak (mandible) in which the nostril (nare) openings are located.
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http://www.dvrconline.org/glossary.html
The bare, wax-like skin above the beak.
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Raised, fleshy area at the base of the maxilla, naked in diurnal raptors (Falconiformes), feathered in parrots, and covered with an operculum (flap) in pigeons.
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Patch of bare skin on upper base of bill of raptors.
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http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/22219
fleshy region at the base of the beak that surrounds the nostrils. See Photo
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Cere noun [ Latin
cera wax: confer French
cire .]
(Zoology) The soft naked sheath at the base of the beak of birds of prey, parrots, and some other birds. See
Beak .
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Cere transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Cered ;
present participle & verbal noun Cering .] [ Latin
cerare , from
cera wax: confer French
cirer .] To wax; to cover or close with wax.
Wiseman. Found on
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fleshy area at bill base enclosing nostrils
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http://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/academic-resources/slater-museum/biodiv
Fleshy area between the beak and face.
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http://www.sialis.org/glossary.htm
The smooth, featherless skin just above the beak where it attaches to the forehead. Also called the operculum.
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http://www.themodernapprentice.com/glossary.htm
[
v] - wrap us in a cerecloth, as of a corpse
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A leathery band of skin covering the base of the bill, into which the nostrils open; presumably the cere protects the nostrils. Present only in certain birds, such as hawks, pigeons, and some parrots.
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https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/bird-academys-a-to-z-glossary-of-bird-ter
Patch of bare skin on upper base of bill of raptors
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https://birds.iitk.ac.in/glossary?page=29
fleshy area above the beak, where the nostrils of most birds are located
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https://sciencetrek.org/sciencetrek/topics/birds_of_prey/glossary.cfm
The waxy casing of the nostrils above the beak
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https://sites.google.com/site/breckfalconry/glossary
Is a wax-like swelling about the base of the upper mandible containing the nostrils, found mostly in birds of prey, pigeons and parrots.
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https://www.birds-of-north-america.net/Bird_Terminology.html
the fleshy, often brightly coloured, structure at the base of the bill.
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https://www.britishbirdlovers.co.uk/identifying-birds/glossary-of-bird-part
verb wrap us in a cerecloth; `cerecloth a corpse`
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https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974
Bare wax-like or fleshy structure at the base of the bill; found in raptors, doves and parrots; (See Operculum).
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a fleshy, membranous covering of the base of the upper mandible of a bird, esp. a bird of prey or a parrot, through which the nostrils open.
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