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from The Century Dictionary.
- In ornithology, the class of birds the young of which require to be fed by their parents; the altricial birds: opposed to Autophagi. See
Altrices .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) Altrices.
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