Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In ornithology, one of the primary divisions of the class Aves, or birds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) Nursers, -- a term applied to those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time; -- opposed to
præcoces .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology
nursers ; thosebirds whoseyoung arehatched in a veryimmature andhelpless condition, so as to require the care of theirparents for some time.
Etymologies
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Latin, plural of altrix nourisher.
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