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Definition of Ralline
1. a. Pertaining to the rails.
Definition of Ralline
1. Adjective. (ornithology rare) Of, or pertaining to members of the Rallidae family (also referred to as rails). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ralline
1. pertaining to a family of marsh birds [adj]
Medical Definition of Ralline
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ralline
Literary usage of Ralline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"... Geant was a Flamingo and not a ralline bird, and that consequently the genus
... that island there is not one which can be assigned to a giant ralline. ..."
2. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1915)
"This does not occur as a character in the tarso-metatarsi of any of the existing
American Grouse I have examined; but it may be a ralline character ..."
3. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1895)
"Pen typically ralline ; joints ... Pes essentially ralline : joints of phalanges
slender and long. ..."
4. Dictionary of Geology and Mineralogy: Comprising Such Terms in Botany by William Humble (1843)
"CO'ralline. Belonging to the class Zoo- phyta, ... The animal which secretes and
inhabits coral. CO'ralline. ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"It is of interest to note in this connection that some ten genera of flightless
ralline birds are known, three or four of which are still living, ..."
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