"American" is a word in ENGLISH

A genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to …

In America, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc.

One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and …

Of or pertaining to Mt. Atlas in Libya, and hence applied to the ocean which lies between Europe and Africa …

A robber upon the sea; a pirate; -- a term applied especially to the piratical adventurers who made depredations on …

A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinidae or Carp family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven. …

The Lake herring (Coregonus Artedi), valuable food fish of the Great Lakes of North America. The name is also applied …

In English law, a general term for any sort of grain; but in America it is properly applied only to …

A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, …

A syllable attached to the first tone of the major diatonic scale for the purpose of solmization, or solfeggio. It …

The common newt or eft. In America often applied to several species of aquatic salamanders.

A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central and South America; -- called also …

An eel-shaped ganoid fish of the order Dipnoi, having both gills and lungs. It inhabits the rivers of South America. …

Any one of numerous small birds belonging to Pipra, Manacus, and other genera of the family Pipridae. They are mostly …

In America, the name is applied to the puma, or cougar, and sometimes to the jaguar.