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ornithurines

ornithurines is the plural of ornithurine.

Meaning of ornithurine

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

Questions about ornithurines

What is ornithurines the plural of?
Ornithurines is the plural of ornithurine.

Words near ornithurines in the dictionary

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

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