单词 | paragnathous |
释义 | † paragnathousadj. Ornithology. Obsolete. rare. Of the beak of a bird: having mandibles of equal length. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [adjective] > having beak or bill > of part or process of cerigerous1856 cereless1862 tomial1866 cerous1869 paragnathous1872 sinuate1872 ceral1874 interramal1874 palaeognathous1933 prokinetic1960 rhynchokinetic1960 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 24 All bills..have been divided into four classes... The paragnathous, in which both [mandibles] are of about equal length, and neither is evidently bent over the other. 1876 D. S. Jordan Man. Vertebr. Northern U.S. 149 Bill paragnathous (mandibles even); tail forked (in our species). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.1872 |
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