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mesomyodian, a. Ornith.|ˌmɛsəʊmaɪˈəʊdɪən|
[f. mod.L. Mesomyōdī pl. (see below) + -an.
The mod.L. name was introduced by Garrod in 1876, and was f. meso- + -myōdī after Polymyōdī, a name introduced by Joh. Müller 1847 for one of the three groups in his classification of Passerine birds; this name was intended to express ‘having many song-muscles’, being (irreg.) f. πολυ- (see poly-) + µῦ-ς muscle + ᾠδή song.]
Belonging to the Mesomyodi, a division of birds in which the intrinsic muscles of the syrinx are inserted at the middle of the upper bronchial half-ring.
1876Garrod in Proc. Zool. Soc. 518 A large collection of Mesomyodian birds. 1884Coues Key N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 239 The mesomyodian or clamatorial type of syrinx.
So mesomyˈodic, mesomyˈodous adjs.
1890Syd. Soc. Lex., Mesomyodic, having lateral muscles only, as the syrinx of the Suborder Clamatores, Order Coracomorphæ. 1890Century Dict., Mesomyodous. |