fissirostral

comparative more fissirostral · superlative most fissirostral

1. biologyHaving the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and nightjars.
2. obsoletebiologyBelonging to the Fissirostres.

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   In such places I found a good many birds, among which were the fine cream-coloured pigeon, Carpophaga luctuosa, and the rare blue-headed roller, Coracias temmincki, which has a most discordant voice, and generally goes in pairs, flying from tree to tree, and exhibiting while at rest that all-in-a-heap appearance and jerking motion of the head and tail which are so characteristic of the great Fissirostral group to which it belongs.

   1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 337