furculum
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Origin of furculum
From New Latin
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We thus clearly see that the sternum, scapula, and furculum are all reduced in proportional length; but when we turn to the wings we find what at first appears a wholly different and unexpected result.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Darwin, Charles
The size and shape of the perforations in the sternum, and the size and divergence of the arms of the furculum, differ.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Darwin, Charles
This reduction of the crest in all the breeds probably accounts for the great variability, before referred to, in the curvature of the furculum, and in the shape of its sternal extremity.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Darwin, Charles
In a Pouter, the furculum had not been lengthened proportionally with the increased length of the body.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Darwin, Charles
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