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ornithichnites

ornithichnites is the plural of ornithichnite.

Meaning of ornithichnite

Noun

ornithichnite (plural ornithichnites)

  1. A fossilised footprint left by a bird.
    • Mr. Lyell next visited the red and green shales of Cabotville, north of Springfield in Massachusetts, where some of the best Ornithichnites have been procured, chiefly in the green shale.1834 October, Charles Lyell, “On the fossil foot-prints of birds”, in The American Journal of Science, volume 45, page 395

Questions about ornithichnites

What is ornithichnites the plural of?
Ornithichnites is the plural of ornithichnite.

Words near ornithichnites in the dictionary

  1. ornith-
  2. ornith.
  3. ornithes
  4. ornithic
  5. ornithichnite
  6. ornithichnites
  7. ornithichnology
  8. ornithinaemia
  9. ornithine
  10. ornithine carbamoyltransferase
  11. ornithine cycle

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