English Explanatory Dictionary

airorhynchy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A retroflexion of the face at the front of the palate in primates.

Word forms

airorhynchy

Etymology

Coined by Austrian zoologist Helmut Otto Hofer in 1952 as German Airorhynchie, from Ancient Greek ἀείρω (aeírō, “to raise, lift”) + ῥῠ́γχος (rhŭ́nkhos, “snout”).

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