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Definition of Sterna
1. Noun. A genus of Sterninae.
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
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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