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macrochires

macrochires


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Macrochires  \Mac`ro*chi"res\,  n.  pl  [NL.,  fr  Gr.?  long  +  ? 
  hand.]  (Zo["o]l.) 
  A  division  of  birds  including  the  swifts  and  humming  birds. 
  So  called  from  the  length  of  the  distal  part  of  the  wing.