altrices

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin altrīcēs, plural of altrīx (“nourisher”).

Noun

1. (zoology) nursers; those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time.

Antonyms

• praecoces

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “altrices”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• articles, clairets, ratsicle, recitals, sclarite, selictar, sterical

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) altrīcēs

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of altrīx