Definition of Alcidine

1. pertaining to a family of seabirds [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alcidine

alchemized
alchemizes
alchemizing
alchemy
alchemystical
alchera
alcheras
alchie
alchies
alchymies
alchymist
alchymists
alchymy
alcian blue
alcid
alcidine (current term)
alcids
alclofenac
alclometasone
alco
alco-holic
alcogel
alcohol
alcohol-dependent
alcohol-dependents
alcohol-free
alcohol-related disorders
alcohol-soluble eosin
alcohol - NDMA oxidoreductase

Literary usage of Alcidine

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

1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1868)
"also calls attention to the fact, that some of the expressions in the diagnose! of the old authors bave no basis in the characters of any alcidine bird. ..."

2. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1890)
"I am rather inclined to think, however, that these Auklets, Murrelets, and Guillemots came away from the ancestral alcidine stock after Plautus did, ..."

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