See Also: wattlebird(medicine)
Duty(finance)
duty(dictionary)
Duty(money)
duty(medicine)
duty(dictionary)
off-duty(dictionary)
double duty(dictionary)
Stamp duty(finance)
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Duty of care (law) and wattlebird (medicine)


Duty of care (law)


A legal duty to take care so that no one is likely to be harmed by a negligent action (or lack of action). If someone fails in his or her duty of care towards another person in a way which could have been foreseen, the injured person has a right to claim damages.

wattlebird (medicine)


wattlebird


1. <ornithology> Any one of several species of honey eaters belonging to Anthochaera and allied genera of the family Meliphagidae. These birds usually have a large and conspicuous wattle of naked skin hanging down below each ear. They are natives of Australia and adjacent islands.

The best-known species (Anthochaera carunculata) has the upper parts grayish brown, with a white stripe on each feather, and the wing and tail quills dark brown or blackish, tipped with withe. Its wattles, in life, are light blood-red. Called also wattled crow, wattled bee-eater, wattled honey eater. Another species (A. Inauris) is streaked with black, gray, and white, and its long wattles are white, tipped with orange. The bush wattlebirds, belonging to the genus Anellobia, are closely related, but lack conspicuous wattles. The most common species (A. Mellivora) is dark brown, finely streaked with white. Called also goruck creeper.

2. <zoology> The Australian brush turkey.

Source: Websters Dictionary