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pygostyles

pygostyles is the plural of pygostyle.

Meaning of pygostyle

Noun

pygostyle (plural pygostyles)

  1. The plate supporting the tail-feathers in birds, formed from fused vertebrae.
    • Aderyn the Bird Queen sat down; her pygostyle engaged a hard wooden bottom.1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F, Penguin, published 2004, page 158

Questions about pygostyles

What is pygostyles the plural of?
Pygostyles is the plural of pygostyle.

Words near pygostyles in the dictionary

  1. pygoscelids
  2. pygostole
  3. pygostoles
  4. pygostyle
  5. pygostyled
  6. pygostyles
  7. pygostylian
  8. pygostylians
  9. pygostylous
  10. pyhrric
  11. Pyhtää

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