ornithic

American  

[awr-nith-ik] / ɔrˈnɪθ ɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to birds.

---

ornithic British  

/ ɔːˈnɪθɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to birds or a bird fauna

---

Etymology

Origin of ornithic

1850–55; < Greek ornīthikós birdlike, equivalent to ornīth- ornith- + -ikos -ic

Example Sentences

Senate gallery, bird watchers often observe that Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse has a notably ornithic look�a sharp beak, darting, saucerish eyes, a tufted head.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Huxley, Thomas Henry

Every claw and phalange has left its mark in the stone; while the trifid termination of the tarso-metatarsal bone leaves three marks more,—fifteen in all,—the true ornithic number.

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh

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 Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Huxley, Thomas H.

But the Australian region is also remarkable for its ornithic singularity.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various