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Definition of pygostyle in English English dictionary
- The plate supporting the tail-feathers in birds, formed from fused vertebrae
- The plate of bone which forms the posterior end of the vertebral column in most birds; the plowshare bone; the vomer
- It is formed by the union of a number of the last caudal vertebræ, and supports the uropigium
- The pygostyle
- vomer
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() From pygo- + Ancient Greek στυλος ‘column’.Resimler
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