Term: halcyon: a mythical bird said to breed at the time of the winter solstice in a nest floating on the sea and to have the power of calming the winds and waves
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: hognose bat: small-eared Mexican bat with a long slender nose
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: randomness: (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: medium: an intervening substance through which something is achieved
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: apophysis: (anatomy) a natural outgrowth or projection on an organ or body part such as the process of a vertebra
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: curling: a game played on ice in which heavy stones with handles are slid toward a target
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: limpet: any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: complete blood count: counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: paleoecology: the branch of ecology that studies ancient ecology
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: olympiad: one of the four-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: bowling pin: a club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target