Culmen

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Top; summit.

    "the Shibboleth and Culmen of Honesty"

  2. 2
    The dorsal ridge of a bird's bill.

    "The measurements were taken as follows: wing length, from the carpal joint to the tip of the longest primary; tarsus length, from the tibiotarsal joint to the distal undivided scute; upper mandible length, the chord length from the point where the culmen enters the feathers of the head to the tip; bill depth, in the vertical plane level at the anterior edge of the nares."

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acmeapexapogeebrowcapclimax

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"the Shibboleth and Culmen of Honesty"

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin culmen (“apex, acme”).

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