Definify.com

Definition 2024


fulicine

fulicine

English

Wikispecies

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