Vocabulary

phalarope (any sandpiper of family Phalaropodidae)

Wilson's phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor)

red-necked phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus)

red phalarope; grey phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus)

common redshank (Tringa totanus)

ruff; reeve (species of sandpiper, Philomachus pugnax)

ruddy turnstone (species of sandpiper, Arenaria interpres)

Eurasian woodcock (Scolopax rusticola)

Japanese fire belly newt (Cynops pyrrhogaster)

American robin (Turdus migratorius)

rough-skinned newt (Taricha granulosa)

eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis)

Asian fairy bluebird (Irena puella)

blackbird (Turdus merula)

nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos)

black-naped oriole (Oriolus chinensis)

greenish brown

common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus)

star (white patch on the forehead of a horse)

star (white patch on the forehead of a horse)

northern wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe)

Old World flycatcher (any bird of family Muscicapinae, esp. the typical flycatchers of subfamily Muscicapinae)

common starling; European starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

crested myna (Acridotheres cristatellus); crested mynah

common myna (Acridotheres tristis); Indian myna; common mynah; Indian mynah

common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula)

oxpecker

xiphoid process; chondroxiphoid

difficult to obtain; difficult to get

saponification; conversion to soap

pseudo-random number generator

cloning

rheumatoid arthritis

Sjogren's syndrome; Sjogren's disease

phoneme

(one's) older sister; (one's) elder sister

autoimmunity

autoimmune disorder

autointoxication

lupus