The genus Choristopus, Eyton, apparently Anserine rather than Cygnine, is said to possess this character […]
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Cygnine
Synonyms for "cygnine" (1 found)
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1 entries- cigna adj (relating to or characteristic of swans)
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But, in the cutting of it, if thou dost shed / One drop of cygnine blood, thy clumsiness...
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On the whole, then, the bones of the pectoral arch in Dendrocygna — if we may judge from the two North American species of the genus — are more anatine than they are either anserine or cygnine.
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1949, G. L. Hendrickson, Classical Philology, Vol. 44, No. 1, page 30 alternate ...scarcely a translator can be found who conveys any other impression than that Horace becomes a swan before our eyes. One almost wonders in what cygnine dialect the rest of the poem was spoken.
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