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ornithoscelidan

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to the Ornithoscelida, or having their characters.
  • noun A member of the Ornithoscelida.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun zoology, now, historical Any of the Dinosauria, formerly known as Ornithoscelida.

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Examples

  • In fact, the ornithoscelidan limb is comparable to that of an unhatched chick.

    Lectures on Evolution Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • In Fig. 6, the pelvis and hind-limbs of a crocodile, a three-toed bird, and an ornithoscelidan are represented side by side; and, for facility of comparison, in corresponding positions; but it must be recollected that, while the position of the bird's limb is natural, that of the crocodile is not so.

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • In Fig. 6, the pelvis and hind limbs of a crocodile, a three-toed bird, and an ornithoscelidan are represented side by side; and, for facility of comparison, in corresponding positions; but it must be recollected that, while the position of the bird's limb is natural, that of the crocodile is not so.

    American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • In Fig. 6, the pelvis and hind limbs of a crocodile, a three-toed bird, and an ornithoscelidan are represented side by side; and, for facility of comparison, in corresponding positions; but it must be recollected that, while the position of the bird's limb is natural, that of the crocodile is not so.

    Lectures on Evolution Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • On comparing the pelvis and hind limb of the ornithoscelidan with that of the crocodile, on the one side, and that of the bird, on the other

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • In fact, the ornithoscelidan limb is comparable to that of an unhatched chick.

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • On comparing the pelvis and hind limb of the ornithoscelidan with that of the crocodile, on the one side, and that of the bird, on the other

    American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • In fact, the ornithoscelidan limb is comparable to that of an unhatched chick.

    American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • On comparing the pelvis and hind limb of the ornithoscelidan with that of the crocodile, on the one side, and that of the bird, on the other

    Lectures on Evolution Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • And, knowing that reptiles that walked upon their hind legs and shared many of the anatomical characters of birds did once exist, it becomes a very important question whether the tracks in the Trias of Massachusetts, to which I referred some time ago, and which formerly used to be unhesitatingly ascribed to birds, may not all have been made by ornithoscelidan reptiles; and whether, if we could obtain the skeletons of the animals which made these tracks, we should not find in them the actual steps of the evolutional process by which reptiles gave rise to birds.

    Lectures on Evolution Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

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