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Definition of Sterna

1. Noun. A genus of Sterninae.

Definition of Sterna

1. Noun. (plural of sternum) ¹

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Definition of Sterna

1. sternum [n] - See also: sternum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sterna

Literary usage of Sterna

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"TERN, Sterna, the name of those web-footed ong-winged birds which are ... Linnaeus, m his last edition of the Systema Nature, places the genus Sterna ..."

2. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"The Prince however gives both Sterna Wilsoni and Sterna Hirundo as American species, in his Birds of Europe and North America; and M. Temminck states that ..."

3. The Crayfish: An Introduction to the Study of Zoology by Thomas Henry Huxley (1880)
"(The anterior cephalic sterna are bent downwards in A so as to bring them into the same plane with the ... sterna ; in B these stei'ira are not shown. ..."

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