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Definition of Gallinago
1. Noun. Snipes.
Exact synonyms: Capella, Genus Capella, Genus Gallinago
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Scolopacidae, Scolopacidae
Member holonyms: Gallinago Gallinago, Whole Snipe, Gallinago Gallinago Delicata, Wilson's Snipe, Gallinago Media, Great Snipe, Woodcock Snipe
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Scolopacidae, Scolopacidae
Member holonyms: Gallinago Gallinago, Whole Snipe, Gallinago Gallinago Delicata, Wilson's Snipe, Gallinago Media, Great Snipe, Woodcock Snipe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gallinago
Literary usage of Gallinago
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1919)
"Gallinago vulgaris DUBOIS, PI. Col. Ois. Belg., 1858, pi. 182. Gallinago ...
Very similar to G. gallinago but rectrices 16 instead of 14, the lateral pair ..."
2. The American Sportsman: Containing Hints to Sportsmen, Notes on Shooting by Elisha Jarrett Lewis (1857)
"SCOLOPAX WILSONII—SCOLOPAX Gallinago. " To-day we spring the snipe, And, with an
eye as keen as does the bird Himself, ..."
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