单词 | pterylography |
释义 | pterylography Ornith.|pt-, tɛrɪˈlɒgrəfɪ| [f. pteryla + -graphy.] The scientific description of, or a treatise on, the pterylosis of birds.
1867(title) Nitzsch's Pterylography, translated from the German. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life Introd. 49 The ulna carries the ‘secondaries’..of pterylography. Hence ˌpteryloˈgraphic, -ical adjs., of or pertaining to pterylography; descriptive of pterylæ; ˌpteryloˈgraphically adv., in respect of pterylography. So ˌpteryloˈlogical a. [as if f. *pterylology], of or pertaining to pterylosis.
1867tr. Nitzsch's Pterylography (Ray Soc.) 43 The most important pterylographic characters of these [Diurnal Rapacious Birds] consist in the presence of an aftershaft on the contour-feathers. Ibid. 83 This group, although inferior to the preceding in extent, is nevertheless, much more variable pterylographically. 1896Newton Dict. Birds Introd. 69 He [Dr. Cornay] also seems to have been aware of some pterylological differences exhibited in Birds. |

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