ocedromine

[Mod. Latin ocydrom(us); Eng. suff.-ine.] Belonging to or characteristic of the genus Ocydromus. "So far the distribution of the Ocydromine form is wholly in accordance with that of most others characteristic of the New Zealand sub-region."- Encyc . Brit . (ed. 9th), xvii. 723. ō-çěd-rô-mūs, subst. [Greek ōkydromos swift running: ōkys swift, and dramein, 2d aor. inf. of trecho to run.] Ornith.: A genus of Rallide, named by Wagler in 1830. [OCYDROME.] Wallace estimates the number of species at four. Ocydroma earl i is Earl's Weka Rail, O. australis , the Weka Rail, of which a white variety sometimes occurs.