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Glaux maritima
Sea milkwort Sea" milk"wort` (Bot.) A low, fleshy perennial herb (Glaux maritima) found along northern seashores.
Sceloglaux albifacies
Laughing goose (Zo["o]l.), the European white-fronted goose. Laughing gull. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A common European gull (Xema ridibundus); -- called also pewit, black cap, red-legged gull, and sea crow. (b) An American gull (Larus atricilla). In summer the head is nearly black, the back slate color, and the five outer primaries black. Laughing hyena (Zo["o]l.), the spotted hyena. See Hyena. Laughing jackass (Zo["o]l.), the great brown kingfisher (Dacelo gigas), of Australia; -- called also giant kingfisher, and gogobera. Laughing owl (Zo["o]l.), a peculiar owl (Sceloglaux albifacies) of New Zealand, said to be on the verge of extinction. The name alludes to its notes.
Sceloglaux albifacies
Wekau We"kau, n. (Zo["o]l.) A small New Zealand owl (Sceloglaux albifacies). It has short wings and long legs, and lives chiefly on the ground.

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- family Primulaceae. It was previously called Glaux maritima, the only species in the monotypic genus Glaux. The species has a number of common names, including...
- Astragalus glaux is a species of milkvetch in the family Fabaceae, native to the western Mediterranean. It is a camephyte. "Astragalus glaux L." Plants...
- Sarolie, Walid Afkir, Suzy Bemba, Bakary Diombera, Mathilde Lamusse, Félix Glaux-Delporto and Sandor Funtek. Focusing on a teenage girl who must fight to...
- Synonyms Nyctala tengmalmi (Gmelin, 1788) Cryptoglaux tengmalmi (Gmelin, 1788) Glaux funerea (Linnaeus, 1758) Strix funerea Linnaeus, 1758 Strix tengmalmi Gmelin...
- southeastern races as a separate species, Lilith's owl (Athene glaux), with subspecies A. g. glaux, A. g. indigena, and A. g. lilith. DNA evidence and vocal...
- and a crescent for the moon. According to Philochorus, it was known as glaux (γλαύξ, 'little owl') throughout the ancient world and "owl" in present-day...
- and later, "bluish-green" or "gray") and ṓps (ὤψ, "eye, face"). The word glaúx (γλαύξ, "little owl") is from the same root, presumably according to some...
- stand away from the lower part of the body. Skyphoi of the type called glaux (owl) have one horizontal and one vertical thumbhold handle. Early skyphoi...
- Gemeinden [Images of The History of The Catholic Apostolic Church], Jena: Glaux Verlag Christine Jäger KG, ISBN 3-931743-42-X. Plato E. Shaw (1946), The...
- Guardians of Ga'Hoole is a fantasy book series written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Scholastic. The series contains a total of 16 books and although...