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ornis

(ˈɔːnɪs)
n
(Zoology) a less common word for avifauna
[C19: from Greek: bird]
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The story begins with Ptolemy's name for Cygnus, ornis (bird), which was transliterated into Arabic.
Draulans, "The adaptive significance of colonial breeding in the Grey Heron Ardea cinerea: inter-and intra-colony variability in breeding success," Ornis Scandinavica, vol.
Many of the examples of pseudoantonyms in the domain of 'negatory' prefixes discussed in the Word Ways 44.1 article are tongue-in-cheek, two of my favorites being E-BOOK ~ NOTE-BOOK and ORNIS 'any bird' ~ NOTORIS 'a New Zealand bird'.
Con la finalidad de corroborar la informacion de su distribucion, se consultaron las bases de datos de museos y colecciones disponibles a traves de los portales electronicos: Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF; www.gbif.net, julio del 2006), Ornis (http://olla.berkeley.edu/ornisnet, julio de 2006) y la Red Mundial de Informacion sobre Biodiversidad (REMIB; http://www.conabio.gob.mx/ remib/doctos/remib_esp.html, julio de 2006).
say, "atemporal") and "ornis" the root of "ornithology," means "land
has announced that Ornis, one of France's leading ASPs, is the first French Hosting Provider to deploy the Blue Lane PatchPoint(R) system as a standard inline patch proxy solution for the increasing number of major vendor application vulnerabilities threatening the security and uptime of the 500 business critical servers within the data center and hence the businesses of its customers' themselves.
The inter-governmental group charged with monitoring the Directive, comprising a representative from each member state (the "Ornis" committee, chaired by the Commission) received a first official request on April 21 for the integration of the interpretative guide in the Directive.