mesomyodian, a. Ornith.
(ˌmɛsəʊmaɪˈəʊdɪən)
[f. mod.L. Mesomyōdī pl. (see below) + -an.
The mod.L. name was introduced by Garrod in 1876, and was f. meso- + -myōdī after Polymyōdī, a name introduced by Joh. Müller 1847 for one of the three groups in his classification of Passerine birds; this name was intended to express ‘having many song-muscles’, being (irreg.) f. πολυ- (see poly-) + µῦ-ς muscle + {wlenisisub}δή song.]
Belonging to the Mesomyodi, a division of birds in which the intrinsic muscles of the syrinx are inserted at the middle of the upper bronchial half-ring.
| 1876 Garrod in Proc. Zool. Soc. 518 A large collection of Mesomyodian birds. 1884 Coues Key N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 239 The mesomyodian or clamatorial type of syrinx. |
So mesomyˈodic, mesomyˈodous adjs.
| 1890 Syd. Soc. Lex., Mesomyodic, having lateral muscles only, as the syrinx of the Suborder Clamatores, Order Coracomorphæ. 1890 Century Dict., Mesomyodous. |