Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In ornithology, a horny or fleshy excrescence upon the beak of a bird.
Wiktionary
- n. zoology A horny excrescence upon the beak of birds.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A horny excrescence upon the beak of birds.
Etymologies
- New Latin, from Ancient Greek. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“For the short vowel in the LXX, cp. thema, ekthema, epithema, parathema, prosthema, sunthema. aphairema Ex. 29: 27; Lvt. 7: 4, 24 etc.”
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