pygostyle
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Origin of pygostyle
1870–75; < Greek pȳgo- (combining form representing pȳgḗ rump) + stŷlos pillar
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The tail's anatomy enabled the scientists to rule out that it belonged to a bird because it was long and flexible and lacked a pygostyle, fused vertebrae that in birds support the tail feathers.
From Reuters • Dec. 8, 2016
"We can be sure of the source because the vertebrae are not fused into a rod or pygostyle as in modern birds and their closest relatives," he explained.
From BBC • Dec. 8, 2016
Such a pygostyle is absent in Archaeopteryx, Hesperornis, Tinami and Ratitae, but it occurs individually in old specimens of the ostrich and the kiwi.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
The origin is tendinous from the anteroventral edge of the pygostyle, and the insertion is semitendinous on the posterolateral surface of the shaft of the femur about one-fourth its length from the proximal end.
From Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae A Taxonomic Study by Stallcup, William B.
Rump′-post, the share bone or pygostyle of a bird; Rump′-steak, steak cut from the thigh near the rump.—The rump, the remnant of the Long Parliament, after Col.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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