BELT, _n._ Bar or band of color more or less completely encircling the
body.
BEND OF WING. Angle or prominence formed at carpus in the folded wing.
BEV´ELLED, _a._ Having two plane surfaces meeting obliquely.
BEV´Y, _n._ Flock of quail.
BI- (_in composition_). Twice; double.
BIBLIOG´RAPHY, _n._ History or other account of the literature of the
subject.
BI´CEPS, _n._ Principal flexor muscle of forearm.
BI´NARY, _a._ Double, in sense of compounded of two.
BINO´MIAL, _a._ Of two terms. Also, noting a system of nomenclature
in which each object has two names, generic and specific. This is the
generally adopted system at present.
BIOL´OGY, _n._ The study of living beings, as to the laws and results of
organization. It is more comprehensive than physiology.
BIOTAX´Y, _n._ Equivalent to taxonomy.
BIVEN´TER, _n._ Name of a double-bellied muscle of the neck.
BLAS´TODERM, _n._ Superficies of the early embryo.
BOAT-SHAPED (_tail_), _a._ Having plane of each side of tail meeting the
other obliquely, making a re-entrance above and keel below.
BOOT, _n._ The tarsal envelope when entire.
BOOT´ED (_tarsus_), _a._ Having the tarsal envelope entire, i.e.
undivided in most or all of its extent, by fusion of the usual scales or
plates. (111.)
BO´REAL, _a._ Northern.
BOSS, _n._ Stud; knob; protuberance; short stout process.
BRACH´IAL, _a._ Pertaining to the wing.
BRACHYP´TEROUS, _a._ Short-winged.
BRACHYU´ROUS, _a._ Short-tailed.
BREAST, _n._ (62.) See PECTUS.
BRIS´TLE, _n._ Small stiff hair-like feather, especially about the mouth
or eyes. Compare VIBRISSA.
BRON´CHIAL, _a._ Pertaining to the bronchi.
BRON´CHUS, _n._; pl. _bronchi_. Fork or branch of the windpipe below,
leading to either lung.
BUC´CAL, _a._ Pertaining to the cheeks internally.
BUFF, BUFFY; _a._ Pale brownish-yellow; color of yellow buckskin.