Noun: tertial
| Singular | tertial |
| Plural | tertials |
Sample Sentences
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He continues — "There was the same rear up, with the head bent down, followed by an upjerk of the hind parts; the long sickle-shaped tertials, so noticeable in this species, seemed little if at all expanded, […] [1923, Arthur Cleveland Bent, Life Histories of North American Birds: Wild Fowl, page 76:]
Nouns inflected like tertial
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin tertius (“third”); the tertial feathers are the third row of feathers. By surface analysis, terti- + -al. See: Latin Nouns '
tertius'.