Términos

Members of a subfamily containing about 50 living species in 16 genera, comprising long-tailed birds of open woodlands and fields, typically hunted for game. The males of most species are have brightly colored plumage, and the the females are plain. Pheasants are native to Asia, western Europe, and North America.

Capa eclesiástica que llevan los clérigos de la Iglesia Oriental.

Crystalline ester prepared from salicylic and carbolic acids, also known as salol; it is an ultraviolet-absorbing compound used in sun screen preparations and as a stabilizer for cellulosic and vinyl plastics.

Museums specializing in the history of postage stamps, revenue stamps, stamped envelopes, postmarks, post cards, covers, and similar materials relating to postal or fiscal history.

Variety of Spanish spoken in the Philippines; it includes characteristics of European Spanish and Latin American Spanish.

Masked, comic actors referred to as "gossips" in farces adopted from Greek Middle Comedy plays and especially popular in southern Italy in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE. Known principally from vase paintings, these are grotesque figures meant to satirize aspects of everyday life, or as burlesques of mythology.

Family containing 19 species in ten genera, characterized as being highly specialized for aquatic life, returning to dry land or pack ice to breed and give birth, lacking external ears, having sleek streamlined bodies, nipples that can be retracted, internal testicles, a penis in an internal sheath, a layer of blubber under the skin, the ability to divert blood to the blubber level to help control their temperature, fore-flippers that are used primarily for steering, and hind flippers bound to the pelvis in such a way that they cannot be moved under the body for walking.

Genus of evergreen trees and shrubs.

Family containing around three genera and five living species of tall, long-necked, long-legged, pink-colored, large-winged, wading birds with thick downturned bills. The birds were previously classified with the the long-legged Ciconiiformes based on certain physical characteristics, although now they are generally placed in their own family.

Order containing one living family of flamingos.

Úsese para describir obras producidas por el grupo étnico africano de mismo nombre que habita Malawi.

Order containing seven living species in one family, characterized by unique large keratin scales covering their skin, and being nocturnal animals that use their well-developed sense of smell to find insects.

Early phonographic recording devices of the type invented by Léon Scott de Martinville in 1857, consisting of a horn or barrel focusing sound waves onto a membrane, and creating a visual analogue of soundwaves onto a lampblack-coated cylinder by means of a hog's hair bristle. It was the first sound recording device, but could not reproduce the recorded sound.

Transcriptions focusing on the pronunciation of the transcribed words or text. Examples include the use of phonetic symbols as an abbreviation for a phonetic description; some of the allophones may be represented by specific symbols, or some of the phonemes may be designated by the symbols for a more restricted set of categories.

Containers specifically used for the protection and transportation of phonographs.

Components of phonographs that wind a mechanism governing the movement of the turntable.