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单词 ægithognathous
释义 ægithognathous, a. Zool.|iːdʒɪˈθɒgnəθəs|
[f. Gr. αἴγιθος, name of an unknown bird + γνάθος jaw.]
Having the formation of palate characteristic of the family ægithognathæ (perching birds, woodpeckers, swifts): see quot. 1894. Hence ægiˈthognathism, the condition of being ægithognathous.
1875W. K. Parker in Encycl. Brit. III. 699/1 All the Coracomorphæ have the ægithognathous palate.1884Coues N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 172 ægithognathism..is exhibited almost unexceptionally by the great group of Passerine birds.1894R. B. Sharpe Handbk. Birds Gt. Brit. I. 1 The palate is said to be ‘ægithognathous’, or ‘Passerine’, when the vomer is broadened and blunt, or truncated, at the anterior end, and is not connected with the maxillo-palatines, which, consequently, are widely separated from each other.
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