Axebird
noun
(austral) a nightjar of northern queensland and new guinea with a cry that sounds like a chopping axe
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the largest island belonging to the sverdrup group in the canadian northwest territories. 15,779 sq. mi. (40,868 sq. km). historical examples we had no good reason to expect any kind of subsistence along the west coast of axel heiberg land. my attainment of the pole frederick a. cook
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a combining form meaning “axis”: axial; axilemma. axi- pref. variant of axio-.