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gastornithids

gastornithids is the plural of gastornithid.

Meaning of gastornithid

Noun

gastornithid (plural gastornithids)

  1. Any extinct bird in the family Gastornithidae.
    • However, as the beaks lack hooks typical for carnivorous birds, and calcium isotopes in the bones do not support a meat-based diet (Angst et al., 2014), it is now assumed that gastornithids were herbivores.2017 November 22, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian

Questions about gastornithids

What is gastornithids the plural of?
Gastornithids is the plural of gastornithid.

Words near gastornithids in the dictionary

  1. gastoned
  2. Gastonia
  3. gastoning
  4. gastons
  5. gastornithid
  6. gastornithids
  7. gastornithiform
  8. Gastown
  9. gastr-
  10. gastraea
  11. gastraeum

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