avian
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avian (ˈeɪvɪən) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| of, relating to, or resembling a bird | |
| [C19: from Latin avis bird] | |
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Avian
is always a great word to know.
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| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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Medical Dictionary
avian a·vi·an (ā'vē-ən)
adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of birds.
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American Heritage
Science Dictionary
| avian (ā'vē-ən) Pronunciation Key
Relating to birds. |
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Example sentences
Avian and human viruses recognize and attach themselves to different sugar structures.
But that symbiosis is complicating efforts to control the nation's outbreaks of avian flu.
The brain, avian or human, does something similar naturally.
The list represents a variety of avian lifestyles-and a mix of reasons why oil would reach the birds.
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