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131Piasa bird — ▪ mythical creature mythical man eating monster that, according to Native American legend, would swoop down and carry off hunters. A drawing of the bird, on a cliff overlooking the Mississippi River north of what is now Alton, Illinois, was …
132tropic bird — trop′ic bird or trop′ic•bird n. orn any of several web footed seabirds of the family Phaethontidae, chiefly of tropical seas, having white plumage with black markings and a pair of greatly elongated central tail feathers • Etymology: 1675–85 …
