non-avian
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.14 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not avian.
Example Sentences
- "non-avian dinosaurs"
- "non-avian theropods"
- "non-avian reptiles"
- ""Non-avian reptiles" comprise an unnatural group used only for chapter convenience here. It is unnatural because excluding birds from Reptilia makes it NON-MONOPHYLETIC. I will discuss non-avian reptiles first (turtles, lizards, snakes, and crocodilians) and leave description of the avian reptiles (birds) until the next major section."
- "Feathers are a universal and fundamental characteristic of birds. These lightweight and yet strong keratin structures have evolved over millions of years into many types, differentiated by variations in their organization, size, and the characteristics of their shafts, barbs, and barbules (fig. 2.10). Discoveries of feathered non-avian dinosaurs have demonstrated that the origin of these quintessential avian structures pre-dated the rise of birds, yet the original function of these singular integumentary appendages remains controversial"
- "As a group, ornithischians tend to be much stouter-toed than ground birds and non-avian theropods. This is readily seen if TTPs and scaled digit widths for all dinosaurs, non-avian and avian, are compared together (figs. 2.24, 3.23, 3.24)."