fulicine
English
editEtymology
editFrom translingual Fulica (genus name) + -ine.
Adjective
editfulicine (comparative more fulicine, superlative most fulicine)
- (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…
- 1896, C. W. Andrews, NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE. VOL. III. (ON THE EXTINCT BIRDS OF THE CHATHAM ISLANDS. PART II.), page 265: