Definition of Pterylography. Meaning of Pterylography. Synonyms of Pterylography

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Definition of Pterylography

Pterylography
Pterylography Pter`y*log"ra*phy, n. [Pteryla + -graphy.] (Zo["o]l.) The study or description of the arrangement of feathers, or of the pteryl[ae], of birds.

Meaning of Pterylography from wikipedia

- the apterylae. The arrangement of these feather tracts, pterylosis or pterylography, varies across bird families and has been used in the past as a means...
- ornithology that studies the areas upon which birds grow feathers; pterylography. The study of pterylosis. ptochology The study of pauperism or poverty...
- 013. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 29535030. Pycraft, W. P. (1903). "On the Pterylography of Photodilus". Ibis. 45 (1): 36–48. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1903.tb03917...
- opposed to the apterylae. See related: pterylosis. pterylosis Also, pterylography. The arrangement of feather tracts, as seen in a bird's pterylae and...
- 214-216. doi:10.25226/bboc.v140i2.2020.a12. Clench, Mary H. (1992). "Pterylography of Birds-of-paradise and the Systematic Position of Macgregor's Bird-of-paradise...
- prior, (Halle) 1833 — Traduit en anglais sous le titre de Nitzsch's Pterylography à la Ray Society en 1867. “Zur Geschichte der Thierinsektenkunde“ in...
- feather patterns and when he read the works of Sundevall and Nitzsch on pterylography, he had nothing new to learn. The zoologist Alfred Newton called him...
- unprecedented understanding of avian anatomy. An aspect of ornithology was pterylography, the study of the patterns of distribution of the pterylae and apterylae...