tylarus

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From New Latin tylarus, from Ancient Greek τυλάριον (tulárion, cushion).

Noun[edit]

tylarus (plural tylari)

  1. (zoology) One of the pads on the undersurface of the toes of birds.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tylarus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)