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sturnoid

sturnoid adjective: belonging to the starlings.

Adjective

sturnoid (not comparable)

  1. Belonging to the starlings.
    • The cross in Sydney's case is quite clearly one between the veritable Great Auk and the Mynah, which as you all know is one of several sturnoid passerine birds of India.1968, Hugh MacDiarmid, The uncanny Scot: a selection of prose, page 164

Questions about sturnoid

What does sturnoid mean?
Sturnoid means belonging to the starlings.
What part of speech is sturnoid?
Sturnoid is an adjective.

Words near sturnoid in the dictionary

  1. Sturms
  2. Sturmvogel
  3. Sturmvogels
  4. sturnid
  5. sturnids
  6. sturnoid
  7. sturred
  8. Sturridge
  9. sturring
  10. Sturrock
  11. Sturrocks

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