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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In ornithology, in Huxley's classification (1867), one of four primary divisions of carinate birds, embracing all those which exhibit schizognathism, or have the palate schizognathous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Zoöl.) The schizognathous birds.

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