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ornithurine

ornithurine noun: a bird of the clade Ornithurae.

Noun

ornithurine (plural ornithurines)

  1. A bird of the clade Ornithurae.
    • Not only is the specimen a long-coveted ornithurine, but it is also breathtakingly well preserved.2001 January 12, Erik Stokstad, “PALEONTOLOGY: New Fossil Fills Gap in Bird Evolution”, in Science, volume 291, number 5502, →DOI

Forms of ornithurine

pluralornithurines

Origin of ornithurine

From translingual Ornithurae + -ine.

Questions about ornithurine

What does ornithurine mean?
Ornithurine means a bird of the clade Ornithurae.
What part of speech is ornithurine?
Ornithurine is a noun.
What is the plural of ornithurine?
The plural of ornithurine is ornithurines.

Words near ornithurine in the dictionary

  1. ornithotomists
  2. ornithotomy
  3. ornithsichian
  4. ornithuran
  5. ornithurans
  6. ornithurine
  7. ornithurines
  8. ornithuromorph
  9. ornithuromorphs
  10. ORNL
  11. ornot

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