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aviarian

aviarian adjective: pertaining to or resembling an aviary ("a place for keeping birds confined").

Adjective

aviarian (comparative more aviarian, superlative most aviarian)

  1. Pertaining to or resembling an aviary ("a place for keeping birds confined").
    • "We got no birds like that in Chicago," he said. "It is not an aviarian city."1981, Stuart Kaminsky, High Midnight: A Toby Peters Mystery, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 168
    • It's clear that this really pretty sincere yellow Dean at left is Admissions. And surely the little aviarian figure at right is Athletics, then, because the facial creases of the shaggy middle Dean are now pursed in a kind of distanced affront, an...1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 6

Examples of aviarian in a sentence

  • Some aviarian species specialize in storming targets by dropping different types of projectiles.2017, Daniel A. Liut, Reality: The Struggle for Sternessence, BQB Publishing, →ISBN, page 39:
  • Rarely seen or heard, the eastern black rail is one of the more mysterious birds in a state full of aviarian oddities.2021 February 20, Chad Gillis, “Florida wildlife agency to add rarely seen eastern black rail to endangered species list”, in The...

Forms of aviarian

comparativemore aviarian
superlativemost aviarian

Origin of aviarian

From aviary + -ian.

Questions about aviarian

What does aviarian mean?
Aviarian means pertaining to or resembling an aviary ("a place for keeping birds confined").
How do you use aviarian in a sentence?
Some aviarian species specialize in storming targets by dropping different types of projectiles.
What part of speech is aviarian?
Aviarian is an adjective.

Words near aviarian in the dictionary

  1. avianizes
  2. avianizing
  3. avianlike
  4. Avianna
  5. avians
  6. aviarian
  7. aviaries
  8. aviarist
  9. aviarists
  10. aviary
  11. aviate

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