What does culmen mean?
Culmen means Top; summit..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Top; summit..
the Shibboleth and Culmen of Honesty
The measurements were taken as follows: wing length, from the carpal joint to the tip of the longest primary; tarsus length, from the tibiotarsal joint to the distal undivided scute; upper mandible length, the chord length from the point where the culmen enters the feathers of the head to the tip; bill depth, in the vertical plane level at the anterior edge of the nares.
A very simple form was found in the carving shown in Pl. 17, fig. 13, where a long projecting knob is seen at the base of the culmen.
Use culmen when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Culmen means Top; summit..
Common synonyms include top, summit, acme, apex.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
the Shibboleth and Culmen of Honesty
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