Definition of Charadrius

1. Noun. Type genus of the Charadriidae: plovers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Charadrius

Chaplin
Chaplinesque
Chapman
Chapman's antshrike
Chapman code
Chapultepec
Char
Chara
Characeae
Characean algae
Characidae
Characinidae
Charadrii
Charadriidae
Charadriiformes
Charadrius
Charadrius melodus
Charadrius morinellus
Charadrius vociferus
Charales
Charcot
Charcot's arteries
Charcot's disease
Charcot's gait
Charcot's intermittent fever
Charcot's syndrome
Charcot's triad
Charcot's vertigo
Charcot-Bottcher crystalloids
Charcot-Bouchard aneurysm

Literary usage of Charadrius

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)
"(Europe and Asia, south in winter to northwestern Africa, India, New Guinea, etc. ; accidental in California?) charadrius ..."

2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"(3) charadrius, Cuv. The beak of the True Plovers is only inflated above ... (1) charadrius, the Greek name of a nocturnal aquatic bird, comes from £«{«• <? ..."

3. Contributions Toward a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture by Leo Wiener (1921)
"THE charadrius. ... has the following account of the charadrius: "charadrius, avis quae in Deuteronomio ..."

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