Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ornithology, a horny or fleshy excrescence upon the beak of a bird.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A horny excrescence upon the beak of birds.
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- noun zoology A
horny excrescence upon thebeak ofbirds .
Etymologies
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New Latin, from Ancient Greek.
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For the short vowel in the LXX, cp. thema, ekthema, epithema, parathema, prosthema, sunthema. aphairema Ex. 29: 27; Lvt. 7: 4, 24 etc.
A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905
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