Keywords
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weights
Objects of known mass for use on scales during weighing. [August 1995 alternate term changed, was 'weight'.]
Aves (class)
The class of vertebrate animals that are typically bipedal and warm-blooded, lay large-yolked hardshelled eggs, often arboreal, and possessing feathers, hollow bones, forelimbs adapted for flight (although some have lost the ability to fly) and hindlimbs for perching and locomotion, a four-chambered heart, keen vision, a horny beak without teeth, and a large muscular stomach. Birds arose from theropod dinosaurs, which were an order of carnivorous dinosaurs.
Elephantidae (family)
Members of a family comprising four living genera of huge quadruped mammals having long curving ivory tusks, and a prehensile trunk or proboscis.
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