Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ornithology, the mantle; the pallium; the back and folded wings taken together, in any way distinguished from other parts, as by color on a gull or tern.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The mantle, or pallium, of a bird.
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- noun zoology The
mantle , orpallium , of abird .
Etymologies
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Latin, a spread or covering.
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It is called the vesperale, the stragulum or altar-cover.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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