…a shrub rose of a variety with grey-green leaves and pinkish-white, sweet-scented flowers…
…a city in west central Romania, to the north of the Transylvanian Alps; population 66,747 (2006). Founded by the Romans in the 2nd century ad, it was the capital of Transylvania…
…an owl with a heart-shaped face, black eyes, and relatively long, slender legs, typically nesting in farm buildings or in holes in trees…
…a small deciduous tree with broad leaves, native to East Asia and long cultivated elsewhere…
…the yellow-flowered Eurasian plant of the cabbage family whose seeds are used to make mustard…
…a fir tree with foliage that appears silvery or bluish because of whitish lines on the undersides of the needles…
…a small white tropical tern which lays its single egg on a narrow ledge or on the bare branch of a tree. When flying against a bright sky the wings appear somewhat translucent, allowing the bone structure to be seen…
…a tropical American climbing plant of the convolvulus family, with sweet-smelling trumpet-shaped white flowers which open at dusk and close at midday…
…a Eurasian poplar with lobed leaves that are white underneath and grey-green above…
…a Eurasian stream-side willow which has narrow leaves with silky white hairs on both sides, and bark which contains salicin…
…any of a number of trees which yield pale timber, in particular:…
…a small migratory sandpiper of northern Eurasia and Canada, typically seen running after receding waves on the beach…
…an ornamental aquatic plant with large round floating leaves and large, typically cup-shaped, floating flowers…
…an orange or yellow terrestrial flatworm up to 8 cm in length, accidentally introduced from Australia to Britain where it is destroying earthworm populations…
…a herbaceous plant with mealy edible leaves, often considered to be a weed…
…a bat with white fur found mainly in Central America…
…a bird of a black-and-white race of the white wagtail, found in the British Isles, Spain, and Morocco…
