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dentiˈroster Ornith. rare
[a. F. dentirostre, ad. mod.L. dentirostr-is, f. L. denti- tooth + rostrum beak, of which the pl. Dentirostrēs was introduced by Cuvier as the name of a family of birds.]
A member of the Dentirostres or Passerine birds having a tooth or notch on each side of the upper mandible. By Cuvier applied to an immense assemblage of birds having no natural relations; by more recent naturalists restricted to the Turdoid or thrush-like Passeres or Insessores.
[1839Jardine Brit. Birds II. 53 The first of the great tribes into which the insessorial birds are separated, the Dentirostres.] 1847Craig, Dentirosters, Dentirostres.
Hence dentiˈrostral, dentiˈrostrate adjs., belonging to the Dentirostres; having a toothed beak.
1841Proc. Berw. Nat. Club I. 251 The Dentirostral tribe. 1847Craig, Dentirostrate. 1876Amer. Cycl. XV. 727 A very large family of dentirostral birds. 1883Syd. Soc. Lex., Dentirostrate, having the characters of the Dentirostres. |