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noun

A thing used or serving to make something look more attractive but usually having no practical purpose, especially a small object such as a figurine.

Usage examples:

Tables covered with ornaments and books
verb

Make (something) look more attractive by adding decorative items.

Usage examples:

A jewel to ornament your wife's lovely throat

Ornamental

ˌɔː.nəˈmen.təl
adjective

Serving or intended as an ornament; decorative.

Usage examples:

An ornamental fountain
noun

A plant grown for its attractive appearance.

Usage examples:

Scale insects enjoy perennial plants and can devastate nut and fruit trees, greenhouse plants, fore…
noun

The condition of being ornamental; (occasionally also) a thing which is ornamental.

noun

Decorative elements added to something to enhance its appearance.

Usage examples:

A baroque chandelier with plasterwork ornamentation
verb

Make (something) look more attractive by adding decorative items.

Usage examples:

A jewel to ornament your wife's lovely throat
noun

A thing used or serving to make something look more attractive but usually having no practical purpose, especially a small object such as a figurine.

Usage examples:

Tables covered with ornaments and books
noun

A person who or thing which ornaments something; specifically an artisan skilled in decoration.

verb

Make (something) look more attractive by adding decorative items.

Usage examples:

A jewel to ornament your wife's lovely throat
noun

A thing used or serving to make something look more attractive but usually having no practical purpose, especially a small object such as a figurine.

Usage examples:

Tables covered with ornaments and books
noun

A person who ornaments; especially a professional decorator, a designer of ornaments.

noun

A thing used or serving to make something look more attractive but usually having no practical purpose, especially a small object such as a figurine.

Usage examples:

Tables covered with ornaments and books
verb

Make (something) look more attractive by adding decorative items.

Usage examples:

A jewel to ornament your wife's lovely throat
adjective

Elaborately or highly decorated.

Usage examples:

An ornate wrought-iron railing
adverb

In a way that has a lot of complicated decoration

Usage examples:

A pair of ornately carved doors, ornately painted tiles covered every surface.
noun

Ornament, adornment, decoration; embellishment, finery.

adjective

Bad-tempered or difficult to deal with.

Usage examples:

An ornery old military man
noun

The birds of a region collectively; = "avifauna".

noun

The observation of birds for the purposes of divination.

adjective

Of, relating to, or characteristic of birds; avian.

noun

Edward hitchcock's name for: a fossil footprint, originally thought to be of a bird or birdlike reptile, now usually attributed to a dinosaur.

noun

An amino acid which is produced by the body and is important in protein metabolism.

Usage examples:

About 50-percent of ingested arginine is rapidly converted in the body to ornithine, primarily by t…
adjective

Relating to or denoting herbivorous dinosaurs of an order distinguished by having a pelvic structure resembling that of birds.

Usage examples:

The university of california museum of paleontology is proud to present displays of ornithischian d…
noun

An ornithischian dinosaur.

Usage examples:

The reasons for the extreme rarity of ornithischians in the lower jurassic of china are unclear at …
adjective

Relating to or denoting herbivorous dinosaurs of an order distinguished by having a pelvic structure resembling that of birds.

Usage examples:

The university of california museum of paleontology is proud to present displays of ornithischian d…
noun

An ornithischian dinosaur.

Usage examples:

The reasons for the extreme rarity of ornithischians in the lower jurassic of china are unclear at …
noun

With plural agreement. a subclass or infraclass of mammals including the monotremes and sometimes also the extinct multituberculates.

noun

With plural agreement. a subclass or infraclass of mammals including the monotremes and sometimes also the extinct multituberculates.

noun

Any plant of the genus ornithogalum (family liliaceae), comprising perennial herbs native to the mediterranean region and southern africa, with bulbous roots and (usually) racemes of greenish-white flowers; especially o. umbellatum. also (in form ornithogalum): the genus itself.

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