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Definition of "ornithic" [or•nith•ic]

  • Of, relating to, or characteristic of birds. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "ornithic" in a sentence
  • "The French Exit the glade of theoric ornithic hermetica"
  • "Connecticut footsteps were made by very ornithic reptiles, or extremely sauroid birds."
  • "Professor Huxley, are the pointing out of this very difficulty, and the calling his attention to the striking resemblance between certain teeth of the dog and of the thylacine as one instance, and certain ornithic peculiarities of pterodactyles as another."