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Definition of Gonys
1. n. The keel or lower outline of a bird's bill, so far as the mandibular rami are united.
Definition of Gonys
1. Noun. The keel or lower outline of a bird's bill, so far as the mandibular rami are united. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gonys
1. a ridge [n -ES]
Medical Definition of Gonys
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gonys
Literary usage of Gonys
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 (1843)
"Bill moderate, nearly straight ; the culmen gently inclining towards the tip,
which is entire ; the gonys straight. Wings short, rounded ; the first and ..."
2. Key to North American Birds: Containing a Concise Account of Every Species by Elliott Coues (1872)
"5, k) ; this is the gonys (corrupted from the Gr. gonu, a knee ; hence, any
similar protuberance). That is to say, this point is ..."
3. Bulletin by United States National Museum (1914)
"Nostril much nearer to culmen than to commissure; culmen and commissure slightly
but distinctly decurved; gonys but little longer than mandibular rami; ..."
4. Lexicon Cornu-britannicum: A Dictionary of the Ancient Celtic Language of by Robert Williams (1865)
"gonys, va To work, to till, or cultivate the ground. ... gonys ef na yll, because
that his hands are sore, he cannot work a bit. MC 158. ..."
5. Bulletin by Smithsonian Institution, Dept. of the Interior, United States Dept. of the Interior, United States National Museum, United States (1901)
"The mandible is much broader at the base, proportionally, than in G. forti», its
basal width considerably exceeding the length of the gonys instead of being ..."
6. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1886)
"gonys more or less ascending. [p. ... {gonys ascending rapidly at the tip 29.
... 201. gonys slightly ascending throughout '. 30. ..."
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