Definition of Scolopax

1. Noun. Type of the Scolopacidae: Old World woodcocks.

Exact synonyms: Genus Scolopax
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Scolopacidae, Scolopacidae
Member holonyms: Eurasian Woodcock, Scolopax Rusticola

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scolopax

Sclavonic
Sclavs
Scleranthus
Scleranthus annuus
Scleroderma aurantium
Scleroderma bovista
Scleroderma citrinum
Scleroderma flavidium
Sclerodermataceae
Sclerodermatales
Scleroparei
Sclerostoma
Sclerotiniaceae
Scobey
Scolopacidae
Scolopax (current term)
Scolopax rusticola
Scolopendrium nigripes
Scolymus
Scolymus hispanicus
Scolytidae
Scolytus
Scolytus multistriatus
Scomber colias
Scomber japonicus
Scomber scombrus
Scomberesocidae
Scomberesox
Scomberesox saurus
Scomberomorus

Literary usage of Scolopax

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)
"Genus Scolopax Linnaeus. Scolopax b LINN.EUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 145. (Type, as designated by Gray, 1840, and by elimination, ..."

2. A History of British Birds by William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders (1884)
"THE WOODCOCK. Scolopax rusticola. Scolopax ... eggs or the young of the Woodcock have been found, during one summer or another, in almost every * Scolopax ..."

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