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culmen

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Borrowed from Latin culmen (“apex, acme”).

noun culmens · culmina

Top; summit. the Shibboleth and Culmen of Honesty
Similar: top, summit, acme, apex, apogee, crest, crown, culmen, fastigium, height, peak, pinnacle
The dorsal ridge of a bird's bill. 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; b

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@misc{culmen_2026,
  title = {culmen},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/culmen},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}