biocompasses

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biocompasses

  1. plural of biocompass
    • 2007 September 18, Natalie Angier, “Songs and Sojourns of the Season”, in New York Times[1]:
      Guided by the Earth’s magnetic field, starlight and other biocompasses that scientists have yet to fully divine, the birds wheel over land and sea, alighting opportunistically en route to rest, preen and refuel.