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Definition of Picarian
1. a. Of or pertaining to Picariæ.
Definition of Picarian
1. a woodpecker or similar bird [n -S]
Medical Definition of Picarian
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Picarian
Literary usage of Picarian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Zoölogy: A Textbook by Sanborn Tenney (1875)
"THE ORDER OF FIGARO, OR picarian BIRDS. IN this order or group, ornithologists
include a large number of birds of widely different forms, ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1894)
"The normal picarian style of wing agrees with the Passerine in regard to the ...
The normal picarian style is very marked, and easily enough recognised. ..."
3. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"... but also included in the same Order as the Swifts, Trogons, and the bulk of
picarian Birds. That the Parrots should come between the ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1891)
"For the present, Figs. 6 and 11 must suffice to represent this style. We shall
need to return to these sections later on. IV. The picarian STYLE. ..."
5. Report of Meeting by ANZAAS, ANZAAS. (1905)
"... which are so notably absent from Australia, accounts at once for the comparative
paucity of picarian birds in the Australasian and Papuan Regions, ..."
6. World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill., 1893 by Committee on Awards, World's Columbian Commission, United States (1901)
"Like nearly all picarian birds, the woodpeckers lay pure white eggs, which they
deposit in holes in trees, usually excavated by themselves, ..."
7. Report of the Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the by ANZAAS. (1905)
"... which are so notably absent from Australia, accounts at once for the comparative
paucity of picarian birds in the Australasian and Papuan Regions, ..."
8. A Manual of Zoology for the Use of Students: With a General Introduction on by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1887)
"The order of the picarian Birds is a large and ill-defined division, corresponding to
... The picarian Birds are monogamous, and bring forth helpless young. ..."
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