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Webster 1913 Edition

Tracheophonae

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Traˊche-oph′o-nae

,

Noun.

pl.

[NL., from

trachea

+ Gr.

φονεῖν

to sound.]

(Zool.)

A group of passerine birds having the syrinx at the lower end of the trachea.