ornithoidichnite

English

Etymology

ornithoid +‎ ichnite

Noun

ornithoidichnite (plural ornithoidichnites)

  1. (paleontology) A fossil track resembling that of a bird.
    • 1855, Edward Hitchcock, Elementary Geology:
      Regarding the names Ornithichnites , Ornithoidichnite , &c., as provisional merely , I now propose names for the animals that made the tracks

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ornithoidichnite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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