Waxwing-It's genus name is Bombycilla. (My bird knowledge is very limited) The common name waxwing is because of the tips to some of the wing feathers and in the Bohemian and Cedar Waxwings, these tips look like sealing wax, and that's where they get their common name. (http://www.wikipedia.com/)2. Torquated- Having or wearing a torque, or neck chain.(www.dictionary.com)
3. Stillicide- A continual falling or succession of drops; rain water falling from the eaves.(www.dictionary.com)
4. Solarium- A glass-enclosed room, porch, or the like, exposed to the sun's rays, as at a seaside hotel or for convalescents in a hospital.
5. Iridule- It is single i.e. not a double rainbow, like the "Twinned Iris" of the previous line, fairly rarely seen and most attractive.(www.wordie.org) It was quoted from Nabokov's wife as the definition.
6. Lemniscate- A plane curvegenerated by the locus of the pointat which a variable tangent to a rectangular hyperbola insect a perpendicular from the center to the tangent.(www.dictionary.com)
7. Seraph- One of the celestial beings hovering above God's throne in Isaiah's vision.
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