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Definition of Remiges
1. n. pl. The quill feathers of the wings of a bird.
Definition of Remiges
1. Noun. (plural of remex) - the flight feathers of a bird ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Remiges
1. remex [n] - See also: remex
Medical Definition of Remiges
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Remiges
Literary usage of Remiges
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
">ut is not yet completely degenerate. Altogether seventeen remiges are represented,
of which seven correspond to primaries. ..."
2. Key to North American Birds: Containing a Concise Account of Every Species by Elliott Coues (1872)
"The shortest wings (among birds with perfect remiges), occur in the lowest swimmers,
... The number of remiges ranges from sixteen, in the humming-bird, ..."
3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1898)
"One point which seems to be borne out by all the specimens is that the body
plumage is pretty well renewed before the remiges begin to molt, ..."
4. The Letter of Dr. Diego Alvarez Chanca, Dated 1484 by Diego Alvarez Chanca, Augstine Marcus Fernández de Ybarra (1907)
"At the same time the outer vane in the hand-remiges becomes constantly ...
Such conditions are really found in the arm-remiges of all birds and in the outer ..."
5. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"... Iff. ligament of remiges; md.dg.rmg. mid-digital remiges ; na. nostril; nct.m.
nictitating membrane ; o.gl. oil-gland ; pr.dg.rmff. pre-digital remiges ..."
6. The Birds of Eastern North America Known to Occur East of the Nineteenth by Charles Barney Cory, Field Museum of Natural History (1899)
"The remiges are divided into primaries, secondaries, and tertials, according to the
... The Secondaries are the remiges attached to the ulna or forearm ..."
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