tomium

English

Etymology

From New Latin [Term?], from Ancient Greek [Term?] (“to cut”). See -tome.

Noun

tomium (plural tomia)

1. (zoology) The cutting edge of the bill of a bird.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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