Meanings
adjectivesturnoid (not comparable)
- not comparablebiologyBelonging to the starlings.
The cross in Sydney's case is quite clearly one between the veritable Great Auk and the Mynah, which as you all know is one of several sturnoid passerine birds of India.
1968, Hugh MacDiarmid, The uncanny Scot: a selection of prose, page 164
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