Home › Words › O › ornithurineornithurineornithurine means A bird of the clade Ornithurae.EtymologyFrom translingual Ornithurae + -ine.nounA bird of the clade Ornithurae.e.g.“Not only is the specimen a long-coveted ornithurine, but it is also breathtakingly well preserved.” — 2001 January 12, Erik Stokstad, “PALEONTOLOGY: New Fossil Fills Gap in Bird Evolution”, in Science, volume 291, number 5502, →DOI:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.ornis 70% match — A bird. vs ornithurine →ichthyornithean 70% match — Any ornithurine dinosaur of the group Ichthyornithes. vs ornithurine →ornithorhynchus 67% match — A platypus (genus Ornithorhynchus). vs ornithurine →nonornithodiran 67% match — Any birdlike dinosaur that is not in the clade Ornithodira vs ornithurine →ornithic 67% match — Of or pertaining to birds. vs ornithurine →ornithomorphic 66% match — Shaped like a bird. vs ornithurine →ornithocheiromorph 66% match — a member of the clade Ornithocheiromorpha. vs ornithurine →ornithomorph 66% match — A figure in ancient art resembling a bird. vs ornithurine →