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Definition of Ornis
1. avifauna [n ORNITHES] - See also: avifauna
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ornis
Literary usage of Ornis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sanctuary: A Bird Masque by Percy MacKaye (1914)
"Unseal The fountains of his vision, and reveal Yonder the sister spirit, whom so
long His blind heart strove to wrong— ornis: Reveal, and let him speak with ..."
2. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1896)
"487 (); Homeyer, ornis,, p. 81 ; Lutke, ornis,, p. 46 (Denmark, breeds) ; Attarda,
ornis,, p. 631 (Holland, breeds); Winge, ornis, ..."