remex

American  

[ree-meks] / ˈri mɛks /

noun

Ornithology.

PLURAL

remiges

1. one of the flight feathers of the wing.

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remex British  

/ ˈriːmɛks, rɪˈmɪdʒɪəl /

noun

1. any of the large flight feathers of a bird's wing

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Other Word Forms

• remigial adjective

Etymology

Origin of remex

1665–75; < Latin rēmex oarsman, equivalent to rēm ( us ) oar + -eg- combining form of agere to drive, do ( act ) + -s nominative singular ending

Example Sentences

Business is expanding “at a robust rate”, says Keith Kettelkamp, the boss of Remex, a debt collector based in New Jersey whose clients include banks, utilities and musical-instrument sellers.

From Economist

Remex, rē′meks, n. one of the flight-feathers of a bird:—pl.

From Project Gutenberg

But the most remarkable fact in connexion with the pterylosis of the wing is the fact that in all, save the Passerine and Galliform types, and some few other isolated exceptions, the secondary series of remiges appears always to lack the fifth remex, counting from the wrist inwards, inasmuch as, when such wings are examined, there is always found, in the place of the fifth remex, a pair of major coverts only, while throughout the rest of the series each such pair of coverts embraces a quill.

From Project Gutenberg

Cypseli.—Tenth terminal remex the longest.

From Project Gutenberg