• n. From Old English "brid" "bird" and Middle English "bridd" "byrd" "bryd" "bridde" "brede". Any feathered vertebrate animal: a member of the second class (Aves) of the great Vertebrate group, the species of which are most nearly allied to the Reptiles, but distinguished by their warm blood, feathers, and adaptation of the fore limbs as wings, with which most species fly in the air.

• wd:Q5113 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)
• Zoomorphic

• birds

• Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]

• http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300264087
• depiction > animal

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