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Definition of Auriculars
1. n. pl. A circle of feathers surrounding the opening of the ear of birds.
Definition of Auriculars
1. Noun. (zoology) A circle of feathers surrounding the opening of the ear of birds. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Auriculars
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Medical Definition of Auriculars
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Auriculars
Literary usage of Auriculars
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 (1920)
"... margined above by a narrow and irregular line of black; auriculars hair brown
or drab; nape ochraceous tawny, varied with black bars on the feathers; ..."
2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1919)
"... centrally on the elongated feathers of a well-defined crest; lores and
superciliary white; auriculars whitish margined with the color of the back; ..."
3. Michigan Bird Life: A List of All the Bird Species Known to Occur in the by Walter Bradford Barrows (1912)
"Similar to the northern Horned Lark, alpestris, but the upper parts paler and
grayer, the posterior auriculars gray rather than brown, and more of the ..."
4. American Ornithology, Or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States by Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, Robert Jameson, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington (1831)
"... upper parts pale olive drab; along the edges of the auriculars and hind head,
the plumage, where it joins the white, is stained with raw terra sienna; ..."
5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1868)
"The fuliginous black of the chin and throat is continuous with that of the sides
of the head as far as the auriculars ; further on it merely extends as a ..."
6. American Ornithology; Or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States. by Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, William Jardine (1832)
"... crown, brown black ; throat and cheeks, as far as the upper angle of the bill,
white, stained with bright yellow ochre; auriculars, almost pure white; ..."
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