Definition of Cyanocitta

1. Noun. New World jays.

Exact synonyms: Genus Cyanocitta
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Garrulinae, Subfamily Garrulinae
Member holonyms: Blue Jay, Cyanocitta Cristata, Jaybird

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyanocitta

Cutsahnim
Cutterman
Cuvier
Cuvier's ducts
Cuvier's veins
Cuyonon
Cuzco
Cwm Silicon
Cwmbran
Cy Young
Cyamopsis
Cyamopsis psoraloides
Cyamopsis tetragonolobus
Cyamus
Cyanobacteria
Cyanocitta (current term)
Cyanocitta cristata
Cyanophyceae
Cyanophyta
Cyathea
Cyathea medullaris
Cyatheaceae
Cyathostoma
Cyathostomum
Cybele
Cyber Monday
Cyberia
Cybil
Cybill
Cycadaceae

Literary usage of Cyanocitta

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

1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1845)
"260, I proposed to separate the Blue Jays of America from Cyanocorax, under the generic name of Cyanocitta, and I also pointed out a species of the latter ..."

2. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1877)
"Cyanocitta ... Bp. Consp. ip 376 (1850) C. cristata. - ~~ Head of Cyanocitta cristata. . . C. diademata. ..."

3. The Code of Nomenclature and Check-list of North American Birds Adopted by by American Ornithologists' Union (1886)
"Blue Jay. Corvus cristatus LINN. SN ed. 10, I. 1758, 106. Cyanocitta ... V. Jan. 1873, 41. Cyanocitta stelleri var. frontalis BOUCARD, Qat. Av. 1876, 279. ..."

4. Birds of the Kotzebue Sound Region, Alaska by Joseph Grinnell (1900)
"STATUS—Common resident locally in Sonoran west of the Sierra Nevada, north to Red Bluff and south to Santa Paula. (478, part) Cyanocitta stellen ..."

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