fissirostral (fisirostral)

[ ornith., having the beak broad and deeply IMG:content-1385.png:[blocks in formation] cleft, swallow, swift, or goatsucker; specifically, of or pertaining to the Fi irostres. This group has been abolished, but fi irostral is retained as a convenient descriptive epithet. - Fi irostral barbets. See barbet2. Fi irostral Bill of Goatsucker. Fi irostres (fis-i-ros'trēz), n. pl. [NL., pl. of fi irostris: see fi irostral.] In Cuvier's system of cla ification, a division of his Pa eri næ, including the swallows, swifts, and goatsuckers; an artificial group, the original components of which are now separated in different orders. It was formerly divided into Nocturn a and Diurna. By some the Fi irostres were made to include various other broad-billed birds, as kingfishers, trogons, fi ive (fis'iv), a. [ the nature of fi ion. The whole plant is built up by the fi ive multiplication of the simple cell in which it takes its origin. Huxley and Martin , Elementary Biology, p. 415. fi lel (fis'l), v. i.; pret. and pp. fi led, ppr. fis sling. [Sc.; also written fi el, fi il, usually fizzle; an imitative word, in part a variant of E. whistle (in some parts of Scotland E. wh is sounded f): see fizzle and whistle.] 1. Same as fizzle, 1.-2. To rustle, as leaves in the wind. He thought, Mr. Lovel, that he heard the curtains o' his bed fi il . Scott , Antiquary, ix. 3. To whistle, as wind through a keyhole.-4. To fidget. [Prov. Eng. or Scotch in all senses.] fi lel (fis'l), (fis'l), n. n. [Also written fi el , fi il ; fis slel, v.] Bustle. [Scotch.] fi le2 (fis'l), п. A dialectal variant of thistle . [Prov. Eng.] fi ura (fi-sū'rä), n.; pl. fi ura (-re). [L.: see fi ure.] In an at .: (a) A fi ure, cleft, rift, or chink between any two things or parts: as, the fi ura palpebra rum (the opening between the eyelids). ( b ) Especially, one of the fi ures or sulci of the surface of the brain, complemen tary to the gyri or convolutions. This Latin form is now used in comparatively few phrases. See fi ure. fi ural (fish'ur-al),