AVIAN
What does "AVIAN" mean?
Of or relating to birds.
Meanings
- Relating to or characteristic of birds. Avian flu spreads quickly through dense poultry flocks.
- A bird (chiefly in technical or literary use). The reserve protects dozens of rare avians. technical
Did you know?
- The word 'aviation' is built from the same Latin bird-root as 'avian': early flight pioneers literally named the dream of human flight after birds.
- Every 'avian' alive is a living dinosaur - birds are the sole surviving branch of the theropod dinosaurs, kin to Tyrannosaurus rex.
Word origin
From Latin 'avis' ('bird') plus the suffix '-an'; the same 'avis' root gives 'aviary', 'aviation', and 'aviator'.
Remember it
AVIAN holds 'AVIation' - both from Latin 'avis', bird. Aviation was the dream of joining the avians.
A little poem
Small dinosaur sings
from the wire above the road-
the last of its line.
haiku
Wordplay
- A pilot and an ornithologist walked into the same bar. They had nothing to say to each other, yet both, deep down, were avian people.
What it teaches
The ordinary sparrow outlasted the dinosaurs; survival favors the small and adaptable, not the large and proud.
Quick facts
What does AVIAN mean?
Of or relating to birds.
Is AVIAN a valid word?
Yes — AVIAN is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is AVIAN?
AVIAN has 5 letters and 3 syllables.
Where does AVIAN come from?
From Latin 'avis' ('bird') plus the suffix '-an'; the same 'avis' root gives 'aviary', 'aviation', and 'aviator'.
What can AVIAN teach us?
The ordinary sparrow outlasted the dinosaurs; survival favors the small and adaptable, not the large and proud.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.