Definition of Ornithoid

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ornithoid

ornithine cycle
ornithine d-aminotransferase
ornithine transaminase
ornithine transcarbamoylase
ornithine transcarbamylase
ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency
ornithines
ornithinuria
ornithischian
ornithischian dinosaur
ornithischians
ornitho-
ornithochory
ornithodelphia
ornithoid (current term)
ornithoidichnite
ornithoidichnites
ornitholite
ornitholites
ornithologic
ornithological
ornithologically
ornithologies
ornithologist
ornithologists
ornithology
ornithomancy
ornithomimid
ornithomimosaur

Literary usage of Ornithoid

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

1. The Popular Science Monthly (1895)
"... to the designation of " ornithoid lizards or batrachians." As time has progressed the order of ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1861)
"... see its five-toed front feet, its long heel, and its blunt, stout tail, we are sure it must have been a marsupial, or a lizard, with an ornithoid type. ..."

3. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1895)
"... although they received the name of " ornithoid lizards or batrachians." The final classification of Prof. Hitchcock summarized the groups as follows: ..."

4. Pioneers of Science in America: Sketches of Their Lives and Scientific Work by William Jay Youmans (1896)
"... thick and narrow-toed birds, ornithoid lizards or batrachians, lizards, batrachians, ... to the designation of "ornithoid lizards or batrachians. ..."

5. Catalogue of Casts of Fossils: From the Principal Museums of Europe and by Henry Augustus Ward (1866)
"This " ornithoid Lizard or Batrachian" had three clawed toes pointing forward, and one short posterior one ; the tracks are nearly in a right line, ..."

6. Catalogue of Casts of Fossils: From the Principal Museums of Europe and by Henry Augustus Ward (1866)
"This " ornithoid Lizard or Batrachian" had three clawed toes pointing forward, and one short posterior one ; the tracks are nearly in a right line, ..."

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