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A reference to kites (the birds).

1. A reference to mockingbirds.
2. The family of mockingbirds, Mimidae, consists of about thirty species of medium-sized passerine birds found in a variety of forest, woodland, and arid habitats of the New World from Canada to Argentina.

They are solitary, arboreal to terrestrial, feeding mostly on insects and fruit; they construct cup-shaped nests of grass and twigs, on or off the ground.

A reference to musk deer.

1. Of or belonging to the family Muridae or the sub-family Murinae, including rats and mice.
2. Resembling or having the characteristics of a mouse.

1. Having the characteristics of or a reference to mice.
2. Of or belonging to the family Muridae or the sub-family Murinae, including rats and mice.

1. A reference to weasels, polecats, and minks.
2. Of, relating to, or belonging to Mustelidae, the family of fur-bearing mammals that includes the badger, mink, otter, and the weasel.

1. A turbulent or rebellious person; a mutineer.
2. Characterized by rebelliousness or lacking submissiveness to authority.

1. A reference to a dormouse or dormice.
2. A dormouse is a small nocturnal rodent resembling a mouse with reddish-brown fur and a bushy tail.

Dormice feed on nuts, berries, and seeds, and hibernate during the winter. They are members of the family Gliridae.

Of or belonging to the sub-family Myrmicinae of stinging ants.

1. Of or belonging to the nostrils.
2. Pertaining to, or referring to, nostrils.

1. Of the nature of, sweet as, nectar; similar to or like nectar.
2. The smooth-skinned variety or mutation of a peach.
3. A variety of aromatic peach of ancient origin, having a smooth skin.
4. A variety or mutation of the peach bearing smooth-skinned fruit usually with yellow flesh.

Probably inspired by German nektarpfirsich, "nectar-peach".

A resemblance to or like negroes.

Belonging to the class of flat-worms (chiefly marine) known as Nemertina, Nemertida, or Nemertea; usually characterized by an elongated, very contractile body, and often brilliantly colored.

1. Having the quality of acting on the nerves, so as to restore them to a normal state; relieving disorders of the nervous system.
2. A reference to the nerves or sinews.

A reference to keas (large brownish-green New Zealand parrot that usually eats insects but occasionally kills sheep by slashing them and eating their flesh) and kakas (also a brownish-green New Zealand parrot).