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Definition of Notaeum
1. the upper surface of a bird's trunk [n -S]
Medical Definition of Notaeum
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Notaeum
Literary usage of Notaeum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1895)
"Shell internal or absent, notaeum with spicules, radula multiseriate. ...
Branchial lamellae few, under the posterior right notaeum, no shell. ..."
2. Key to North American Birds: Containing a Concise Account of Every Species by Elliott Coues (1872)
"The notaeum, on the contrary, is often the seat of extraordinary development of
feathers, either in size, shape or texture; as the singularly elegant plumes ..."
3. The Unknown Horn of Africa by Frank Linsly James (1888)
"... the reddish colour over and under the eye is very faint; the round drop-like
whitish spots of the notaeum are not very large and distinctly ..."
4. The Opisthobranchiate M̲o̲l̲l̲u̲s̲c̲a̲ of the Branner-Agassiz Expedition to by Frank Mace MacFarland (1909)
"... from which, however, it differs strongly in other features, notably in the
granular, almost velvety notaeum. For the present I deem it best to consider ..."
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