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remex
[ ree-meks ]
noun
- one of the flight feathers of the wing.
remex
/ ˈriËmÉ›ks; rɪˈmɪdʒɪəl /
noun
- any of the large flight feathers of a bird's wing
Derived Forms
- remigial, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- °ù±ð·³¾¾±²µÂ·¾±Â·²¹±ô [ri-, mij, -ee-, uh, l], adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of remex1
Example Sentences
Business is expanding “at a robust rateâ€, says Keith Kettelkamp, the boss of Remex, a debt collector based in New Jersey whose clients include banks, utilities and musical-instrument sellers.
Remex, rē′meks, n. one of the flight-feathers of a bird:—pl.
But the most remarkable fact in connexion with the pterylosis of the wing is the fact that in all, save the Passerine and Galliform types, and some few other isolated exceptions, the secondary series of remiges appears always to lack the fifth remex, counting from the wrist inwards, inasmuch as, when such wings are examined, there is always found, in the place of the fifth remex, a pair of major coverts only, while throughout the rest of the series each such pair of coverts embraces a quill.
Cypseli.—Tenth terminal remex the longest.
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