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单词 non-avian
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non-avianadj.

Brit. /nɒnˈeɪvɪən/, U.S. /ˌnɑnˈeɪviən/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: non- prefix, avian adj.
Etymology: < non- prefix + avian adj.
That does not relate to birds; (Palaeontology) designating or relating to members of the dinosaur clade other than birds and their immediate ancestors.
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1907 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 79 469 Nor will it have any effect on non-avian precipitin reactions.
1944 Science 3 Nov. 400/1 Professor C. W. Creaser..will again teach courses in the natural history of the non-avian vertebrates.
1980 Lancet 19 Jan. 132/2 The association of C. psittaci with non-avian sources of human disease was not well known at that time.
1991 Sci. Amer. Apr. 5/2 The taxonomic groups that were most affected at the KT boundary were..the ornithischian and nonavian saurischian dinosaurs.
2002 Nature 27 June 937/1 Different criteria have been suggested to distinguish between the footprints of avian and non-avian theropods.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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