Definition of Recurvirostra

1. Noun. Type genus of the Recurvirostridae: avocets.

Exact synonyms: Genus Recurvirostra
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Recurvirostridae, Recurvirostridae
Member holonyms: Avocet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recurvirostra

Recamier's operation
Received Pronunciation
Recent epoch
Receptors for activated C Kinase
Rechabite
Rechabites
Recife
Recklinghausen
Recklinghausen's disease of bone
Recklinghausen's disease type I
Reconquista
Reconstruction
Reconstruction Period
Rector
Recurvirostra (current term)
Recurvirostridae
Red Army Faction
Red Baron
Red Book
Red Brigades
Red China
Red Cloud
Red Crescent
Red Cross
Red Delicious
Red Devil
Red Devils
Red Eye
Red Guard

Literary usage of Recurvirostra

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

1. The Birds of America by John James] [Audubon (1843)
"Recurvirostra AMERICANA, Linn. PLATE CCCLIII.—ADULT MALE, AND YOUNG IN WINTER. The fact of this curious bird's breeding in the interior of our country ..."

2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"... and long red feet; it is a rare bird whose habits are but imperfectly known^l) This is perhaps the only place for the Recurvirostra, Lin. ..."

3. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1919)
"... andina (extralimital).o Recurvirostra AMERICANA Gmelin. AMERICAN AVOCET. Adults in summer (sexes alike).—Head (except anteriorly), neck, and chest light ..."

4. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1893)
"... recurvirostra. By- CHARLES SCHUCHERT. (Proc. Biological Society of Washington, vol. viii, pp. 79-82, pi. xi, 1893). A brief account of the developmental ..."

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