fulicine

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From New Latin Fulica (genus name).

Adjective

fulicine (comparative more fulicine, superlative most fulicine)

  1. (ornithology, rare) Of, or pertaining to coots.
    • 1896, C. W. Andrews, NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE. VOL. III. (ON THE EXTINCT BIRDS OF THE CHATHAM ISLANDS. PART II.), page 265:
      The tarso-metatarsus is also typically Fulicine…
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