See also: Pachyptile

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Borrowed from translingual Pachyptila.

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pachyptile (plural pachyptiles)

  1. (rare) Any seabird in the genus Pachyptila.
    • 1976, V.P. Shuntov, Sea Birds and the Biological Structure of the Ocean, page 257:
      On the New Zealand shelf in the Tasman Sea pachyptiles are the most characteristic (the most numerous is the Pachyptila turtur).

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A classical compound of the Ancient Greek πᾰχῠ́ς (pakhús, thick) + the French -ptile (feather), probably after the translingual Pachyptila.

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pachyptile (plural pachyptiles)

  1. (ornithology, rare) having thick feathers