Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of birds.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to birds; characteristic of birds; avian; bird-like; ornithological: as, an ornithic character; ornithic structure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to birds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
birds .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The French Exit the glade of theoric ornithic hermetica
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The French Exit the glade of theoric ornithic hermetica
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The French Exit the glade of theoric ornithic hermetica
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Connecticut footsteps were made by very ornithic reptiles, or extremely sauroid birds.
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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Professor Huxley, are the pointing out of this very difficulty, and the calling his attention to the striking resemblance between certain teeth of the dog and of the thylacine as one instance, and certain ornithic peculiarities of pterodactyles as another.
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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Thus, for example, we have the convoluted windpipe of the sloth, reminding us {83} of the condition of the windpipe in birds; and in another mammal, allied to the sloth, namely the great ant-eater (Myrmecophaga), we have again an ornithic character in its horny gizzard-like stomach.
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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Finally, he has thrown out the suggestion that the celebrated footsteps left by some extinct three-toed creatures on the very ancient sandstone of Connecticut were made, not, as hitherto supposed, by true birds, but by more or less ornithic reptiles.
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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Yet the interval between them is completely filled, in the mesozoic fauna, by birds which have reptilian characters, on the one side, and reptiles which have ornithic characters, on the other.
The Rise and Progress of Palaeontology Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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It is curious, considering how much, one way or another, we are amused or pleased by the chatter and song of birds, that you will scarcely find in any ornithic manual more than a sentence, if so much, about their hearing; and I have not myself, at this moment, the least idea where a nightingale's ears are!
Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859
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America, the traveler from the United States recognizes few ornithic forms in the Valley of Quito.
The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853
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