Vocabulary

fertility (esp. of animals)

infertility (esp. of plants)

infertility (esp. of animals)

receiving; welcoming; going to meet; person sent to meet or pick up someone

right wing organization, esp. one using "black van" propaganda trucks

abandonment; rejection

ground hostess (female passenger attendant at an airport)

Peter Pan collar

reverse culture shock

derived fossil

fossil wood

fasciation

chemical fossil

facies fossil

phytoflagellates

dinoflagellates

dinoflagellate of genus Ceratium

Carnivora

Feliformia (Carnivora suborder including cats)

variation; amount of change

wattlebird (Anthochaera genus)

little wattlebird (Anthochaera lunulata)

brush wattlebird (Anthochaera chrysoptera)

red wattlebird (Anthochaera carunculata)

yellow wattlebird (Anthochaera paradoxa)

Meliphagidae (honeyeater family of birds)

Phasianidae (pheasant family of birds)

Galliformes; galliform order of birds

Odontophoridae (New World quail family of birds)

Anseriformes (order of swimming birds)

Anatidae (duck family of birds)

Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy of birds

Hawaiian honeycreeper

male carer (at a nursery school, children's home, etc.); childcare worker

being scattered in all directions; being broken up and dispersed

rebellion

defoliant

lintel of the alcove in a tea room or a window in a shoin-style reception room

dropping; losing

under the wing (esp. of an aircraft)