The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . Plitviijfuihi. lated to the turnstones and surf-birds, with ahind toe and very short tarsus, containing onespecies, P. sociahilis, from the southern regionsof South (i>lo-vi-anus), V. [NL. (Vieillot,181G), < L. j4»i(((, rain: see jluvial.] A genus. Crocodile-bird {P/uviattus ttgyptiusi. of plovers, belonging to the subfamily Cursori-inie; the crocodile-birds. /. fl?.(7)/p(i?«t, the only spe-cies, inhabits northern Africa, and is among
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . Plitviijfuihi. lated to the turnstones and surf-birds, with ahind toe and very short tarsus, containing onespecies, P. sociahilis, from the southern regionsof South (i>lo-vi-anus), V. [NL. (Vieillot,181G), < L. j4»i(((, rain: see jluvial.] A genus. Crocodile-bird {P/uviattus ttgyptiusi. of plovers, belonging to the subfamily Cursori-inie; the crocodile-birds. /. fl?.(7)/p(i?«t, the only spe-cies, inhabits northern Africa, and is among the ttirds sup-posed to be the troehilus of Heroiiotus (the Ilojiliiitrnissjriiinsns being another). See Incldiiin, and cut under sjmr-wiiii/ed. Also called Curmrim, Hi/as, Amnwptila, (plovi-o-^-af), n. [< L. pluvia,rain, -I- Gr. yp&ipsiv, write.] A self-recordingrain-gage. In Beckleys pluvioyraph a pencil, attached to a vesselwhich sinks as it receives the rain, describes a curve on asheet of paper fixed round a rotating cylinder. Enciic. Bril., XX. 257. pluViometer (plo-vi-ome-ter), n. [Also j)?MOT-anicter; < L. pluvia, rain, + Gr. ulrpov, mea-sure.] An instrument for collecting and mea-suring tlie (luanfity of water tliat falls in rain,snow, etc., at a particular place; a cut in next column. Pluviometer, a, vertical section. pluviometric (plo^
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