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Definition of Altricial
1. Adjective. (of hatchlings) naked and blind and dependent on parents for food.
Definition of Altricial
1. Adjective. (zoology) Helpless at birth (of young animals); or having young which are helpless at birth. ¹
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Definition of Altricial
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Altricial
Literary usage of Altricial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United States: Including by David Starr Jordan (1904)
"altricial. Plumage often brilliant. In all warm regions. Genera 26; species 354,
nearly half of which are American. All of the latter, and many of the Old ..."
2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1869)
"Thus, e. д., in Bonaparte-s parallel of altricial ... It is not so with birds ;
if there be any structural modifications correspondent to altricial and ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"association of altricial and proe- ... would be divided, the altricial ...
would stand first or highest in the altricial series of the ..."
4. Field Book of Birds of the Southwestern United States by Roger Tory Peterson, Gilbert Haven Trafton, Luther E. Wyman, Elizabeth F. Burnell (1916)
"For the most part the lower forms of birds are precocial, the young being ready
to walk when first hatched; the higher forms are altricial, the young being ..."
5. Bird Friends: A Complete Bird Book for Americans by Gilbert Haven Trafton (1916)
"For the most part the lower forms of birds are precocial, the young being ready
to walk when first hatched; the higher forms are altricial, the young being ..."
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