Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word TERTIAL
TERTIAL
Definitions of TERTIAL
- (ornithology) Any flight feather attached to the humerus (upper arm) of a bird.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using TERTIAL in a Sentence
- It also has prominent double wing bars formed by yellowish-white tips to the wing covert feathers (a long bar on the greater coverts and a short bar on the median coverts), yellow-margined tertial feathers, and long yellow supercilium.
- Identification from juvenile herring gulls is most readily done by the more solidly dark (unbarred) tertial feathers.
- More modern sounding than "tertial chords" (built from thirds), it is useful in comping; since the structure of quartal harmony is usually vague, many roots may be applied to the So What chord and it may work well in various contexts including, "a major scale context; a Mixolydian mode context; or a minor context".
- This bird could be confused with the scarlet-breasted fruiteater (Pipreola frontalis), but that species has pale tips to the tertial wing feathers, the male has a scarlet throat but no collar, and the female has a yellow upper throat and unbarred breast.
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