Meanings
adjectivepulveratricious (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoleterarenesting on the ground
a thick Membrane connects the Toes, which is not found in any other of the pulveratricious Birds; the Legs are armed with the Spurs ſhort ſharp and black.
1738, Eleazar Albin, William Derham, A natural history of birds, The Pheaſant. Phaſianus
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