ornithic
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of ornithic
1850–55; < Greek ornīthikós birdlike, equivalent to ornīth- ornith- + -ikos -ic
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 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.
Ornithodel′phia, the lowest of the three sub-classes of mammals, same as Monotremata—from the ornithic character of the urogenital organs.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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