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Etymology

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From translingual Fulica (genus name) +‎ -ine.

Adjective

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fulicine (comparative more fulicine, superlative most fulicine)

  1. (ornithology, rare) Of, or pertaining to coots.
    • 1896, C. W. Andrews, NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE. VOL. III. (ON THE EXTINCT BIRDS OF THE CHATHAM ISLANDS. PART II.), page 265:
      The tarso-metatarsus is also typically Fulicine…
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