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Definition: DENTIROSTRAL

Part of Speech Definition
Adjective 1. Having a toothed bill; -- applied to a group of passerine birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrikes and vireos.[Websters]
2. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb dentirostrally.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(dentirostrally)
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective dentirostral.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "Dentirostral" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Definition: DENTIROSTRAL

Part of SpeechDefinition
Adjective1. Having a toothed bill; -- applied to a group of passerine birds, having the bill notched, and feeding chiefly on insects, as the shrikes and vireos.[Websters]
2. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb dentirostrally.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(dentirostrally)
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective dentirostral.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "DENTIROSTRAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)