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English
Etymology
From Grallae + -ic.
Adjective
grallic (not comparable)
- (zoology, archaic) Of or relating to the Grallae, a former taxonomic classification of wading birds.
- Synonym: gralline
1812, Noah Webster, Jun., “The Grallic or Stilted Kind, with Cloven Feet”, in History of Animals; Designed for the Instruction and Amusement of Persons of both Sexes, New Haven, Conn.: Published and sold by Howe & Deforest, and Walter & Steele; Walter & Steele, printers, →OCLC, paragraph 315, page 169:The crane and fowls of a like kind, seem to hold a middle place between land and water fowls, as they have separate toes like land fowls, but the bills and legs of the aquatic orders. [...] From the length of their legs they are called grallic, or stilted.
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