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  • 1cosset — I. n. Pet lamb, hand reared lamb; pet (of any kind). II. v. a. Fondle, caress, pet, coddle, make a pet of, make much of …

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  • 2Kakapo — Conservation status Critically Endangered ( …

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  • 3Glossary of sheep husbandry — The raising of domestic sheep has existed in nearly every inhabited part of the globe, and the variations in cultures and languages which have kept sheep has produced a vast lexicon of unique terminology used to describe sheep husbandry. A few of …

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  • 4cade — I. ˈkād noun ( s) Etymology: Middle English, from Latin cadus jar, bottle, from Greek kados, of Semitic origin; akin to Hebrew kadh water jar : barrel, cask, keg; …

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  • 5cosset — [17] Cosset may originally have meant ‘someone who lives in a cottage’. Old English had a word cotsǣta ‘cottager’, which was formed from cot ‘cottage’ and *sǣt , an element related to the verb sit. This disappeared from the language after the Old …

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  • 6cosset — [17] Cosset may originally have meant ‘someone who lives in a cottage’. Old English had a word cotsǣta ‘cottager’, which was formed from cot ‘cottage’ and *sǣt , an element related to the verb sit. This disappeared from the language after the Old …

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  • 7animal learning — ▪ zoology Introduction       the alternation of behaviour as a result of individual experience. When an organism can perceive and change its behaviour, it is said to learn.       That animals can learn seems to go without saying. The cat that… …

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  • 8cade — adjective Etymology: English dialect cade pet lamb, from Middle English cad Date: 1551 left by its mother and reared by hand ; pet < a cade lamb > …

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  • 9Bog turtle — Conservation status …

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  • 10Ireland — Irelander, n. /uyeur leuhnd/, n. 1. John, 1838 1918, U.S. Roman Catholic clergyman and social reformer, born in Ireland: archbishop of St. Paul, Minn., 1888 1918. 2. Also called Emerald Isle. Latin, Hibernia. a large western island of the British …

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