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ornithes

ornithes is the plural of ornis.

Meaning of ornis

Noun

ornis (plural ornithes)

  1. (formal) A bird.
  2. The birds collectively of a region; avifauna.
    • Baird then proceeds to treat of the eastward movement of American birds, and its influence on the ornis of Greenland and Europe, and vice versâ.1867, The record of zoological literature, volume 3, page 60

Questions about ornithes

What is ornithes the plural of?
Ornithes is the plural of ornis.

Words near ornithes in the dictionary

  1. orning
  2. ornipressin
  3. ornis
  4. ornith-
  5. ornith.
  6. ornithes
  7. ornithic
  8. ornithichnite
  9. ornithichnites
  10. ornithichnology
  11. ornithinaemia

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