a. [f. L. avi-s bird + -AN; cf. apian.] Of or pertaining to birds.

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1870.  Rolleston, Anim. Life, Introd. p. xlix. Peculiarities which distinguish the Avian from the Reptilian organism.

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1879.  Cornh. Mag., June, 722. The avian system of architecture.

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