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pomatorhine, a. Ornith.|ˈpəʊmətəʊraɪn|
[ad. mod.L. pōmatorhīnus adj., f. Gr. πῶµα, -ατ- lid, cover + ῥίς, ῥιν- nose.]
Having the nostrils partly covered with a scale. Applied ineptly to a single species of Stercorarius or Skua, all the genus being really ‘pomatorhine’: cf. pomarine.
1884Yarrell Brit. Birds (ed. 4) III. 671 The Pomatorhine Skua is said..to deposit two eggs in a mere depression of the moss on the tundras of the Taimyr. 1896List Anim. Zool. Soc. 530 Stercorarius pomatorhinus (Temm.), Pomatorhine Skua. |