ornithic
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of ornithic
1850–55; < Greek ornīthikós birdlike, equivalent to ornīth- ornith- + -ikos -ic
Example Sentences
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But the immense size of some of these footprints served to militate for a time against belief in their ornithic origin.
From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller
Yet the interval between them is completely filled, in the mesozoic fauna, by birds which have reptilian characters, on the one side, and reptiles which have ornithic characters, on the other.
From The Rise and Progress of Palaeontology by Thomas Henry Huxley
Those great reptilian lords, the biped Saurians of the Mesozoic, already foreshadowed his erect posture, though their limbs may have been more ornithic than mammalian.
From The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Sir J. William Dawson
His opinion as to the ornithic character of the remains was afterwards confirmed by Professor Owen.
From The Antiquity of Man by Sir Charles Lyell
But, after all, it is by no means certain, though very probable, that the Connecticut footsteps were made by very ornithic reptiles, or extremely sauroid birds.
From On the Genesis of Species by St. George Mivart
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