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pygostyle en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈpaɪɡəstaɪl/

Etymology

From English pygo- + Ancient Greek στῦλος (stûlos, “column”). By surface analysis, pygo- + -style.

Meanings

  1. The plate supporting the tail-feathers in birds, formed from fused vertebrae.
    • Aderyn the Bird Queen sat down; her pygostyle engaged a hard wooden bottom. 1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F, Penguin, published 2004, page 158:

Forms

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pygostyles Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

propygostylar · pygostyled

Synonyms

parson's nose · pope's nose · ploughshare bone · sultan's nose

Translations (4)

ga pígistíl (the plate supporting the tail-feathers in birds) · es pigóstilo (the plate supporting the tail-feathers in birds) · fr pygostyle (the plate supporting the tail-feathers in birds) · de Pygostyl (the plate supporting the tail-feathers in birds)