Meaning of corviform | Babel Free

Definitions

Resembling a crow or raven; corvine.

rare

Examples

“A family of corviform oscine passerine birds, typified by the genus Oriolus; the Old World orioles or golden thrushes: so called from the characteristic yellow color of the plumage.”

“Miss Flees and her toady Peebles, the choleric MacWilt, the occasionally corviform Dr. Brown, and the rest, are hideous and malignant creatures all, and prey to their own craven, violent, and envious natures.”

“It is not sufficient because it is possible (indeed, quite likely) that the machinery determining raven blackness is identical in all important respects to the machinery determining the blackness of other species in the genus Corvus, for example, the carrion crow—thus that carrion crows as well as ravens have P. (Or more securely if less ornithologically: there might be some corviform life forms on another planet that have P; they would not thereby qualify as ravens.)”

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