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AVIAN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pertaining to or characteristic of birds
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Domain category:
zoological science; zoology (the branch of biology that studies animals)
Pertainym:
bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)
Context examples:
Canarypox vectors retain the pancytotropism of most poxviruses, but is unable to productively replicate in non-avian species, thus eliminating the safety concerns exist with other vectors.
(Canarypox Vector, NCI Thesaurus)
B. avium is found in avian species where it causes bordetellosis, but is nonpathogenic in humans.
(Bordetella avium, NCI Thesaurus)
After the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs 66 million years ago, hyaenodonts were the main predators on the African continent.
(Fossil discovery in Tanzania reveals ancient bobcat-sized carnivore, National Science Foundation)
Previous research has indicated that in infections with the 1918 pandemic virus or infections with an H5N1 avian virus, a powerful immune response is established that leads to death.
('Significant breakthrough' in understanding the deadly nature of pandemic influenza, University of Cambridge )
We know dinosaurs eventually evolved feathery wings and became today's birds, but besides Yi qi, there wasn't any prior evidence in the fossil record to suggest this type of non-avian flight.
(Second Bat-Like Dinosaur Discovered in China, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Avian Leukosis virus is the type species.
(Alpharetrovirus, NCI Thesaurus)
A species of avian type C retroviruses (RETROVIRUSES TYPE C, AVIAN) causing anemia in fowl.
(Avian Myeloblastosis Virus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
A joint research team from the University of Calgary, American Museum of Natural History, and Florida State University announced Monday that the eggs of non-avian dinosaurs such as the duck-billed dinosaur took as long as six months to hatch, far longer than had previously been believed.
(Slow-cooking dinosaur eggs may have contributed to extinction, Wikinews)
Today, Wyoming is much too cold for turacos for most of the year, but during the early Palaeogene period, which began with the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs 66 million years ago, the Earth was much warmer.
(Past climate change pushed birds from the northern hemisphere to the tropics, University of Cambridge)
A type C avian retrovirus
(Avian Leukemia Sarcoma Virus, NCI Thesaurus)
