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Definition of Apterygidae

1. Noun. Coextensive with the order Apterygiformes.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apterygidae

Literary usage of Apterygidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"... Apterygidae. In other words, the original stock is considered to have produced three Ratite branches only, the third of which gives rise to two twigs, ..."

2. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"... a nature that there is no room upon the globe for discoveries that can seriously modify them. Even if one or two peculiar types, like Apterygidae or ..."

3. The Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, Geology by James Samuelson, William Crookes (1877)
"in the interior of Australia or in New Guinea, and that Apterygidae or ... Even if one or two peculiar types like Apterygidae or ..."

4. The Journal of Science by Calcutta Asiatic Society (1877)
"in the interior of Australia or in New Guinea, and that Apterygidae or ... Even if one or two peculiar types like Apterygidae or ..."

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