Definition of Impennes. Meaning of Impennes. Synonyms of Impennes

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Definition of Impennes

Impennes
Impennes Im*pen"nes, n. pl. [NL., fr. L. pref. im- not + penna feather.] (Zo["o]l.) An order of birds, including only the penguins, in which the wings are without quills, and not suited for flight.

Meaning of Impennes from wikipedia

- Penguins are a group of aquatic flightless birds from the family Spheniscidae (/sfɪˈnɪsɪdiː, -daɪ/) of the order Sphenisciformes (/sfɪˈnɪsəfɔːrmiːz/)....
- Catalogue of the Plataleae, Herodiones, Steganopodes, Pygopodes, Alcae and Impennes in the collection of the British Museum. Catalogue of the Birds in the...
- wimani at Fossilworks.org Amegino, Florentino (1905): Enumeracion de los impennes fósiles de Patagonia y de la Isla Seymour. An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires 3(6):...
- ISBN 978-0-470-65666-2. Ameghino, Florentino (1905): Enumeracion de los impennes fósiles de Patagonia y de la Isla Seymour. An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires 3(6):...
- Catalogue of the Plataleae, Herodiones, Steganopodes, Pygopodes, Alcae, and Impennes in the collection of the British Museum. (1898). It is now considered as...
- the family Cruschedulidae, however in his 1906 paper "Enumeracion de los Impennes Fosiles de Patagonia y de la Isla Seymour" he synonymized the family into...