Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gastornithid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gas-tor-nithid
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any extinct bird in the family Gastornithidae.

Example Sentences

"However, as the beaks lack hooks typical for carnivorous birds, and calcium isotopes in the bones do not support a meat-based diet (Angst et al., 2014), it is now assumed that gastornithids were herbivores."

Inflected Forms

gastornithids (plural)

Questions

What does gastornithid mean?: Any extinct bird in the family Gastornithidae.

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