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Avian   /ˈeɪviən/   Listen
Avian

adjective
1.
Pertaining to or characteristic of birds.





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... Hopi pictography, and, while decorative in part, is likewise highly conventionalized. On the body semicircular rain cloud symbols and markings similar to those of the bodies of certain birds are distinguishable. The feet likewise are more avian than reptilian, but of a form quite unusual in structure. It is interesting to note the similarity in the carved line with six sets of parallel bars to the band surrounding the figure of the human hand shown in plate CXXXVII, c. In attempting to identify the pictograph on ...
— Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 • Jesse Walter Fewkes


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