Definition of Genus Coscoroba

1. Noun. A genus of Anatidae.

Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Anatidae, Family Anatidae
Member holonyms: Coscoroba

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Coscoroba

genus Coronilla
genus Corozo
genus Cortaderia
genus Corticium
genus Cortinarius
genus Corvus
genus Coryanthes
genus Corydalis
genus Corydalus
genus Corylopsis
genus Corylus
genus Corynebacterium
genus Corypha
genus Coryphantha
genus Corythosaurus
genus Coscoroba (current term)
genus Cosmocampus
genus Cosmos
genus Costia
genus Cotinga
genus Cotinus
genus Cotoneaster
genus Cottus
genus Cotula
genus Coturnix
genus Coumarouna
genus Cracticus
genus Crambe
genus Crangon
genus Craspedia

Literary usage of Genus Coscoroba

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

1. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"... atrata) is confined to Australia, and the aberrant genus, Coscoroba, to the south of South America. THE TRUE SWANS. GENUS CYGNUS. ..."

2. The Birds of India: Being a Natural History of All the Birds Known to by Thomas Claverhill Jerdon (1864)
"The genus Coscoroba, Bonap., founded on Anas coscoroba, Gmelin, (A. chionis, Illiger) from South America, is placed by Bonaparte at the end of the Swans. ..."

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