fissirostral

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  1. In ornithology, having the beak broad and deeply cleft, as a swallow, swift, or goatsucker; specifically, of or pertaining to the Fissirostres. This group has been abolished, but fissirostral is retained as a convenient descriptive epithet.
  2. Fissirostral barbets. See barbet.

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  1. from New Latin fissirostris (from Latin fissus, cleft, + rostrum, beak) + -al.
 

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