Definition of Remigial

1. remex [adj] - See also: remex

Lexicographical Neighbors of Remigial

remerged
remerges
remerging
remet
remethylatable
remethylate
remethylated
remethylation
remex
remifentanil
remiform
remigate
remigated
remigates
remiges
remigial (current term)
remigrate
remigrated
remigrates
remigrating
remigration
remigrations
remikiren
remilitarisation
remilitarise
remilitarization
remilitarizations
remilitarize
remilitarized
remilitarizes

Literary usage of Remigial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In this the remigial streamers do not lose their barbs, and as a few of the next quills are also to some extent elongated, the bird, when flying, ..."

2. Elements of Physiophilosophy by Lorenz Oken (1847)
"... there being consequently contraction of the body or arteriose straitening of the sphincter muscles. In Fishes, swimming is a rowing or remigial stroke, ..."

3. Ecology and Conservation of the Marbled Murrelet by C. John Ralph (1997)
"... molt by mid-September, others that were still molting in early October would not have completed remigial molt until November (Carter, unpubl. data). ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In this the remigial streamers do not lose their barbs, and as a few of the next quills are also to some extent elongated, the bird, when flying, ..."

5. Blackbeard: A Page from the Colonial History of Philadelphia (1835)
"The " Izaak Walton" followed, manned by younger members of the club, nearly all powerful and athletic men, not unpractised in remigial art, and of one mind ..."

6. The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A (1907)
"... In this the remigial streamers do not lose their barbs, and a» a few of the next quills are also to some extent elongated, the bird, when flying, ..."

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