See Also: adamite(medicine)
pre-adamite(dictionary)
Adamite(dictionary)
mutton(dictionary)
mutton(medicine)
mutton(dictionary)
mutton-bird(dictionary)
mutton-fish(dictionary)
Curry mutton(recipes)
Leg of lamb or mutton baked in hay(recipes)

mutton-bird (iou) and pre-adamite (iou)


mutton-bird (iou)



mutton-bird noun. L18.
[from MUTTON + BIRD noun.]
Any of various sea birds of southern oceans whose cooked flesh is said to resemble mutton in flavour: (a) NZ the sooty shearwater, Puffinus griseus; (b) Austral. the short-tailed shearwater, P. tenuirostris; (c) an Antarctic petrel of the genus Pterodroma. L18.
mutton-bird scrub, a shrub or small tree, Senecio reinoldii, of the composite family, with round leathery leaves and small yellow flowers. NZ. L19.
mutton-birder noun (Austral. & NZ) a person who catches mutton-birds for Food or sport L19.

pre-adamite (iou)



pre-adamite noun & adjective. M17.
[from PRE- 2 + ADAM noun + -ITE1.]
A. noun.
A person of a race formerly believed to have existed before the time of Adam. M17.
A believer in the existence of men before Adam. obsolete exc. Hist. E18.
b. adjective. Belonging to a race or to the time previous to Adam; prehuman. L17.
pre-ada'mitic adjective = PRE-ADAMITE adjective E18.
pre-adamitism noun the doctrine of the existence of pre-adamite man L18.