Ornithologer

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An ornithologist. rare

    "So although Galen ſaith that it is harder, than that of the Partridg, Pigeon, or Henne, &c; yet where he ſpeakes of meats of good and bad juyce, he affirmeth the former, as alſo that it’s neither thin nor groſſe, and Savonarola preferreth it before the Buſtard or Thruſh, ſo Bapt Fier. Yet the Ornithologer and Volateranus deny it."

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"So although Galen ſaith that it is harder, than that of the Partridg, Pigeon, or Henne, &c; yet where he ſpeakes of meats of good and bad juyce, he affirmeth the former, as alſo that it’s neither thin nor groſſe, and Savonarola preferreth it before the Buſtard or Thruſh, ſo Bapt Fier. Yet the Ornithologer and Volateranus deny it."

Etymology

From Latin ornithologus + -er.

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