culmen

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No. 32066 has a large bill (exposed culmen, 21 mm.; breadth of bill at middle of nostril, 10 mm.).

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  1. Top; summit. At the culmen or top was a chapel. Sir T. Herbert, Travels, p. 227.
  2. [NL.] Specifically, in ornithology, the median lengthwise ridge of the upper mandible. See first cut under bill. The culmen is to the upper mandible what the ridge is to the roof of a house; it is the upper profile of the bill—the highest middle lengthwise line of the bill. … In a great many birds, especially those with depressed bill, as all the ducks, there is really no culmen; but then the median lengthwise line of the surface of the upper mandible takes the place and name of culmen. Coues, Key to N. A. Birds, p. 104.
  3. [NL.] In anatomy, the upper and anterior portion of the monticulus of the vermis superior of the cerebellum. Also called cacumen.

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  • The word derives from the past participle of the Medieval Latin verb "culminare," meaning "to crown," and ultimately from the Latin noun "culmen," meaning "top." —  Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
  • July 6, 1955, measurements: wing, 186 mm.; tail, 144 mm.; tarsus, 49 mm.; culmen, 11 mm.; weight, 103 gms. —  Birds from Coahuila, Mexico
  • June 19, 1952, measurements: wing, 141, 146 mm.; tail, 142, 149 mm.; tarsus, 27, 27 mm.; culmen, 25, 24 mm. —  Birds from Coahuila, Mexico
  • E Nava, June 15, 1952; measurements: wing, 367 mm.; tail, 233 mm.; culmen, 29 mm.; and [Male] 31677 from 1.5 mi. —  Birds from Coahuila, Mexico
  • May 31, 1954; measurements: wing, 345 mm.; tail, 213 mm.; culmen, 26 mm.; testes, 8 mm. long. —  Birds from Coahuila, Mexico
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