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English
Etymology
From Latin tertius (“third”); the tertial feathers are the third row of feathers.
Pronunciation
Noun
tertial (plural tertials)
- (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the humerus (upper arm) of a bird.
1923, Arthur Cleveland Bent, Life Histories of North American Birds: Wild Fowl, page 76:He continues — "There was the same rear up, with the head bent down, followed by an upjerk of the hind parts; the long sickle-shaped tertials, so noticeable in this species, seemed little if at all expanded, […]