aviarian

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English

Etymology

From aviary +‎ -ian.

Adjective

aviarian (comparative more aviarian, superlative most aviarian)

  1. Pertaining to or resembling an aviary ("a place for keeping birds confined").
    • 1981, Stuart Kaminsky, High Midnight: A Toby Peters Mystery, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 168:
      "We got no birds like that in Chicago," he said. "It is not an aviarian city."
    • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest , Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 6:
      It's clear that this really pretty sincere yellow Dean at left is Admissions. And surely the little aviarian figure at right is Athletics, then, because the facial creases of the shaggy middle Dean are now pursed in a kind of distanced affront, an I'm-eating-something-that-makes-me-really-appreciate-the-presence-of-whatever-I'm-drinking-along-with-it look that spells professionally Academic reservations.
    • 2017, Daniel A. Liut, Reality: The Struggle for Sternessence, BQB Publishing, →ISBN, page 39:
      Felinnines utilize similar weapons combined with silver claws. Metallic fangs are widely used by avis combatants, many of them often equipped with spears under their wings. Some aviarian species specialize in storming targets by dropping different types of projectiles.
    • 2021 February 20, Chad Gillis, “Florida wildlife agency to add rarely seen eastern black rail to endangered species list”, in The News-Press, archived from the original on 6 December 2022:
      Rarely seen or heard, the eastern black rail is one of the more mysterious birds in a state full of aviarian oddities.