uropygium 的定义
Ornithology.
- the projecting terminal portion of a bird's body, from which the tail feathers spring.
更多uropygium例句
- The uropygium also, which in the European bird is entirely white, is in our specimen partially variegated with black.
- The tail length, however, is measured from the base of the uropygium to the tip of the longest pair of rectrices.
- Uropygium: the ovipositor when it is a mere extension of the abdominal segments.
- Seaside Sparrows have a mid-dorsal row of downs in the dorsal tract near the uropygium.
- In some of the families the uropygium is recorded as small in suspiciously close to 25 per cent of the offspring.