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tenuirostral

tenuirostral adjective: having a thin bill (said of birds belonging to the former group of birds Tenuirostres.

Adjective

tenuirostral (comparative more tenuirostral, superlative most tenuirostral)

  1. (obsolete) Having a thin bill (said of birds belonging to the former group of birds Tenuirostres
    • The tenuirostral birds included the hummingbirds.

Forms of tenuirostral

comparativemore tenuirostral
superlativemost tenuirostral

Questions about tenuirostral

What does tenuirostral mean?
Tenuirostral means having a thin bill (said of birds belonging to the former group of birds Tenuirostres.
What part of speech is tenuirostral?
Tenuirostral is an adjective.

Words near tenuirostral in the dictionary

  1. tenuigenin
  2. tenuinucellate
  3. tenuious
  4. tenuipalpid
  5. tenuipalpids
  6. tenuirostral
  7. tenuis
  8. tenuispinoside
  9. tenuities
  10. tenuity
  11. tenuivirus

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