ornithic
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of ornithic
1850–55; < Greek ornīthikós birdlike, equivalent to ornīth- ornith- + -ikos -ic
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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 Hugh Miller
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 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 Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas H. Huxley
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
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