turdiform
English
Etymology
From translingual Turdus + -iform.
Adjective
turdiform (comparative more turdiform, superlative most turdiform)
- (ornithology, rare) Of, relating to or resembling a thrush, or any other bird of the family Turdidae.
Synonyms
References
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “turdiform”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
- The Superior Person's Book of Words by Peter Bowler