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Webster 1913 Edition

Ornithopappi

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Or-niˊtho-pap′pi

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p

rop.

Noun.

pl.

[NL., from Gr.

ὄρνισ

a bird + [GREEK] an ancestor.]

(Zool.)

An extinct order of birds. It includes only the Archaeopteryx.