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culmina

culmina is the plural of culmen.

Meaning of culmen

Noun

culmen (plural culmens or culmina)

  1. Top; summit.
    • the Shibboleth and Culmen of Honesty1681, Balm from Gilead
  2. The dorsal ridge of a bird's bill.
    • The measurements were taken as follows: wing length, from the carpal joint to the tip of the longest primary; tarsus length, from the tibiotarsal joint to the distal undivided scute; upper mandible length, the chord length from the point where the culmen enters the feathers of the head to the tip...1997 June 20, “A Role for Ecotones in Generating Rainforest Biodiversity”, in Science, volume 276, number 5320, →DOI, pages 1855–1857

Questions about culmina

What is culmina the plural of?
Culmina is the plural of culmen.

Words near culmina in the dictionary

  1. Culmer
  2. Culmerland
  3. Culmers
  4. culmicolous
  5. culmiferous
  6. culmina
  7. culminal
  8. culminant
  9. culminate
  10. culminated
  11. culminates

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