Definition of Sterna

1. Noun. A genus of Sterninae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Sterna
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Sterninae, Subfamily Sterninae
Member holonyms: Sea Swallow, Sterna Hirundo

Definition of Sterna

1. Noun. (plural of sternum) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sterna

1. sternum [n] - See also: sternum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sterna

sterlet
sterlets
sterling
sterling(a)
sterling area
sterling bloc
sterling silver
sterlinghillite
sterlingly
sterlingness
sterlingnesses
sterlings
stern
stern chaser
stern chasers
sterna (current term)
sternage
sternages
sternal
sternally
sternbergite
sterncastle
sterncastles
sterndrive
sterndrives
sternebra
sternebrae
sternebral
sterned
sterner

Literary usage of Sterna

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 (1842)
"TERN, sterna, the name of those web-footed ong-winged birds which are ... Linnaeus, m his last edition of the Systema Nature, places the genus sterna ..."

2. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"The Prince however gives both sterna Wilsoni and sterna Hirundo as American species, in his Birds of Europe and North America; and M. Temminck states that ..."

3. The Crayfish: An Introduction to the Study of Zoology by Thomas Henry Huxley (1880)
"(The anterior cephalic sterna are bent downwards in A so as to bring them into the same plane with the ... sterna ; in B these stei'ira are not shown. ..."

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