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Aves
[ ey-veez ]
noun
, (used with a plural verb)
- a class of vertebrates comprising the birds.
Aves
/ ˈeɪviːz /
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Aves1
1895–1900; < New Latin; Latin, plural of avis bird
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Aves1
pl of Latin avis bird
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Example Sentences
Edie Falco is that rarest of rarae aves: a down-to-earth diva.
From The Daily Beast
They are in fact undoubted primitive ova with all the characters which primitive ova present in Elasmobranchii, Aves, &c.
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Man is man, though the Virgin and the saints listen to his aves and prayers from beneath a jacket of serge and a fisherman's cap.
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Guinea-fowls from Numidia, (aves Numidicae or merely Numidicae) were a favorite dish.
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Aves Diomedis—judicant inter suos et advenas, &c. Isidorus Orig.
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The long-deferred Aves Island claim has been satisfactorily paid and discharged.
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