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Definition of Rectrix
1. n. A governess; a rectoress.
Definition of Rectrix
1. Noun. A governess; a rectoress. ¹
2. Noun. A flight feather on the tails of birds, used for directional control. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rectrix
1. a feather of a bird's tail [n -TRICES]
Medical Definition of Rectrix
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Origin: L, fem. Of rector.
1. A governess; a rectoress.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Rectrix
Literary usage of Rectrix
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1919)
"Outer web of outermost rectrix dark gray; under parte of body not pure white (more
or less grayish); bill mostly red at all seasons; wing usually more than ..."
2. Bulletin by United States National Museum (1902)
"Third rectrix with greater part of its outer web and a large portion of the ...
Third rectrix with outer web entirely black, the inner web with little if ..."
3. Key to North American Birds: Containing a Concise Account of Every Species by Elliott Coues (1872)
"A rectrix broad to the very tip, and there cut squarely off, is truncate; ...
A linear rectrix is very narrow, with parallel sides; a lanceolate one is ..."
4. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1901)
"... tail dusky, outer web of outer rectrix ferruginous; throat white, streaked
with olive; breast olive—each feather darkest at center, lighter at edges and ..."
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