"culmen" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin culmen (“apex, acme”).",
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          "ref": "1681, Balm from Gilead:",
          "text": "the Shibboleth and Culmen of Honesty",
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      "glosses": [
        "Top; summit."
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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        "The dorsal ridge of a bird's bill."
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        "(zoology) The dorsal ridge of a bird's bill."
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