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Definition of Tertial

1. a. & n. Same as Tertiary.

Definition of Tertial

1. Noun. (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the humerus (upper arm) of a bird. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tertial

1. a flight feather of a bird's wing [n -S]

Medical Definition of Tertial

1. Same as Tertiary. Origin: From L. Tertius third, the tertial feathers being feathers of the third row. See Tierce. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tertial

Literary usage of Tertial

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

1. Contributions to the Natural History of Alaska: Results of Investigations by Lucien McShan Turner (1886)
"There are also two more marks by which Professor Baird's bird agree with P. cineracea, for it lacks the red spot on the innermost tertial. ..."

2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1917)
"... of outermost tertial, and the basal three-fourths of outer web of the same feather, black: the lesser wing-coverts, edgings to wing-coverts and quills, ..."

3. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1902)
"... tertial with black patch pointed at tip. ¡ic ule. it, i p. 153. ;>'. Longest tertial with black oblong- rounded at tip. ..."

4. Masterpieces of Murder: An Edmund Pearson True Crime Reader by Edmund Lester Pearson, Gerald Gross (1876)
"In the first place, the extraordinary development of the tertial and ... The tertial feathers, it is well known, are an outgrowth of the humerus, ..."

5. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1921)
"Longest tertial with black patch pointed at tip. J4R Ir aculeata, p.. ^^^^HH 3'. Longest tertial with black oblong rounded at tip. carolinensis, p.. Fig. ..."

6. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1902)
"Longest tertial witli black patch pointed at tip. aculeata, p. -15 Fit-, r,-». ^ '•>'. Longest tertial with black oblong rounded at lip ..."

7. A History of British Birds by William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders (1882)
"The female has the grey of the back mixed with brown, and beneath, where the male is red, is of a warm mouse- colour ; the innermost tertial is slightly ..."

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