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Definition of Nidifugous
1. Adjective. (of birds) leaving the nest shortly after hatching.
Definition of Nidifugous
1. Adjective. (biology of a bird) That leaves the nest shortly after hatching ¹
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Definition of Nidifugous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nidifugous
Literary usage of Nidifugous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"nidifugous, without spina swallows and coursers. ... nidifugous. Vomer vestigial.
With large crop and caeca. Hallux vestigial or absent since ..."
2. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1919)
"... bill and tarsus relatively short and stout; anterior toes usually fully
webbed (never cleft); . young pseudo-nidifugous (nearly ..."
3. Bulletin by United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution (1901)
"Of the characters mentioned in these two diagnoses the following are common to
the two groups, and therefore are not diagnostic of either: (1) nidifugous ..."
4. The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told by John Arthur Thomson (1922)
"... groups in accordance with the condition and stage of development at the date
of leaving the egg. Technically these groups are the nidifugous and the ..."
5. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1908)
"... warlike disposition or nidifugous habit place them largely out of danger of
such enemies as smaller and weaker species must provide against, ..."
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