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Definition of Tomium
1. n. The cutting edge of the bill of a bird.
Definition of Tomium
1. Noun. (zoology) The cutting edge of the bill of a bird. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tomium
1. the cutting edge of a bird's bill [n TOMIA]
Medical Definition of Tomium
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tomium
Literary usage of Tomium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by United States National Museum (1914)
"... powder-down patches present on breast and sides of body, and maxillary tomium
with a prominent "tooth" or angular projection at commencement of the ..."
2. Bulletin by United States National Museum (1902)
"Maxilla strongly hooked at tip, its tomium with a conspicuous median "tooth"
Lanio (p. 122) ff. Maxilla not strongly hooked at tip, ..."
3. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1919)
"... strongly recurved to the acute tip; culmen and maxillary tomium strongly,
regularly, and about equally convex ; tip of the maxilla truncate or ..."
4. A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United States: Including by David Starr Jordan (1904)
"Seme on tomium of upper mandible visible from outside for most of its length;
... on upper tomium scarcely visible except near angle of mouth, ..."
5. A Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United States: Including by David Starr Jordan (1899)
"Seme on upper tomium scarcely visible except near angle of mouth, the tomium
scarcely sinuate; nostril near middle of nasal fossa; (head, bill and feet ..."
6. Bulletin by United States National Museum (1901)
"It. Bill much swollen, with superior and lateral outlines decidedly convex;
mandibular tomium strongly convex anterior to the sub- basal angle; ..."
7. Bulletin by United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution (1901)
"Л. Bill much swollen, with superior and lateral outlines decidedly convex;
mandibular tomium strongly convex anterior to the sub- ..."
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