Definition of Gallinago media

1. Noun. Old World snipe larger and darker than the whole snipe.

Exact synonyms: Great Snipe, Woodcock Snipe
Group relationships: Capella, Gallinago, Genus Capella, Genus Gallinago
Generic synonyms: Snipe

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gallinago Media

Galleria mellonella
Gallia
Gallian
Galliano
Gallianos
Gallic
Gallican
Gallicanism
Gallicans
Gallicism
Gallie's transplant
Galliformes
Gallinago
Gallinago gallinago
Gallinago gallinago delicata
Gallinago media
Gallinula
Gallinula chloropus
Gallinula chloropus cachinnans
Gallirallus
Gallo
Gallo-
Gallo-Italian
Gallo-Roman
Gallo-Romans
Gallomania
Gallophilia
Gallophilias
Gallophone
Galloway

Literary usage of Gallinago media

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 media (p.). aa. Smaller, with much smaller feet (tarsus 27.5-33.5, middle toe, without claw, 28-32.5); exposed culmen longer than middle toe with ..."

2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1899)
"Gallinago major versus gallinago media. — In 'The Auk,' for April, 1897, ... 228) ax also gallinago media Gerini (Orn. Meth. Dig., 1773. ..."

3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1868)
"The COMMON S. (S. gallinago, or gallinago media) is about 11 inches in entire length, the bill almost 3 inches. The sexes are alike in plumage, ..."

4. The Malayan Peninsula: Embracing Its History, Manners and Customs of the by Peter James Begbie (1834)
"... or Common sand lark— gallinago media, or Common snipe—the gallinago media, or Scolopax gallinula Lin. the Jack snipe —the Scolopax Sinensis, or Chinese, ..."

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