Definition of Polioptila

1. Noun. New World gnatcatchers.

Exact synonyms: Genus Polioptila
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Sylviidae, Sylviidae
Member holonyms: Gnatcatcher

Lexicographical Neighbors of Polioptila

Pole
Pole Star
Polemoniaceae
Polemoniales
Polemonium boreale
Polemonium caeruleum
Polemonium reptans
Polemonium van-bruntiae
Polemonium viscosum
Polenske number
Poles
Polesia
Poleszuk
Polianthes
Polianthes tuberosa
Polioptila (current term)
Polis
Polish
Polish Sign Language
Polish monetary unit
Polish notation
Polish parliament
Polish space
Polishness
Polistes
Polistes annularis
Politzer
Politzer's luminous cone
Politzer bag
Politzer method

Literary usage of Polioptila

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

1. Argentine Ornithology: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Birds of the Argentine by Philip Lutley Sclater, William Henry Hudson (1888)
"The peculiar genus Polioptila, which contains some twelve or thirteen species of small-sized American birds, ranging from the United States to the Argentine ..."

2. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1895)
"Breeds throughout its United States range, and winters from the South Atlantic and Gulf States southward. 751 a. Polioptila caerulea obscura ..."

3. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1885)
"SEEBOHM has entirely left out the consideration of the genus Polioptila from ... 267), to which, both in form and style of coloration, Polioptila bears a ..."

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