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ornithonyms

ornithonyms is the plural of ornithonym.

Meaning of ornithonym

Noun

ornithonym (plural ornithonyms)

  1. The name of a (species of) bird.
    • The selection of which ornithonyms to include in a dictionary is dependent on the type of dictionary.2016, James Lambert, “Ornithonymy and Lexicographical Selection Criteria”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 30, number 1, pages 39–62

Questions about ornithonyms

What is ornithonyms the plural of?
Ornithonyms is the plural of ornithonym.

Words near ornithonyms in the dictionary

  1. ornithomorphic
  2. ornithomorphs
  3. ornithon
  4. ornithons
  5. ornithonym
  6. ornithonyms
  7. ornithonymy
  8. ornithophaenology
  9. ornithophage
  10. ornithophages
  11. ornithophagic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ornithonyms (page history and authors); ornithonym (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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