Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Thrush-like in a strict sense; of or belonging to the Turdinæ.
Examples
“OW 1868-1885 OW larine gull OW tringine sandpiper OW meleagrine turkey W trochilidine humming - milvine kite 1727-1842 bird 1885 OW OW trochiline humming - nestorine kea, kaka W bird W phasianine pheasant turdine thrush 1890 1868”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘turdine’.
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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
tabacosis, tabanid, tabaret, tabati?re, tabby, tabefaction, tabellary, tabellion, tabernacle, tabernacular, tabescent, tabific and 930 more...
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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Not Quite As Awful As They Sound
masticate, absquatulate, adumbrate, afflatus, fetial, anile, bilabial, cineaste, smew, copse, piebald, testudinate and 156 more...
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Beastly adjectives
How would you describe your brother-in-law? Is he a tad bovine? Maybe there is something lacertilian about him? Or his business practices seem a little percesocine to you.
dasyproctine, tolypeutine, asinine, feline, canine, eusuchian, simian, musteline, cervine, caprine, percesocine, hirudine and 227 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Animal-ine
feline, leonine, vulpine, canine, ranine, elephantine, serpentine, cervine, ovine, porcine, aquinine, asinine and 171 more...
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Things Avian
Wordies relating to birdies. :-)
calidrid, corvid, avian, avifauna, beak, brood, aerie, altricial, albumen, winged, wattle, covey and 217 more...
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May or May Not Be Specific, But It's ...
This list will contain all non-excremental references to poo. See its ancestor list, Specific Excrement, which has generated no small amount of conversation (heated and otherwise) since its incepti...
fernando poo, a pooping sea, poop deck, clinchpoop, pimiento load, crappie, very reverend con..., pookimo, pootalian, kickapoo, skypoo, swheat-n-poo and 72 more...
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Words That Wordie Has Taught Me
New words that I've learned on Wordie.
contronym, callipygian, apostate, nyctophobia, transliteration, copyleft, mudita, inchoate, manualism, ithyphallic, diacritics, nastygram and 26 more...
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sionnach not as bad as it sounds, it means 'characteristic of thrushes'; but your spellchecker will insist you mean 'turbine' Feb 22, 2007