Definition of Genus Furnarius

1. Noun. Type genus of the family Furnariidae: ovenbirds.

Exact synonyms: Furnarius
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Furnariidae, Furnariidae
Member holonyms: Ovenbird

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Furnarius

genus Freesia
genus Fregata
genus Fremontia
genus Fremontodendron
genus Fringilla
genus Fritillaria
genus Froelichia
genus Fuchsia
genus Fucus
genus Fulica
genus Fulmarus
genus Fumaria
genus Fundulus
genus Fungia
genus Funka
genus Furnarius (current term)
genus Fusanus
genus Fusarium
genus Fuscoboletinus
genus Gadus
genus Gaillardia
genus Galago
genus Galax
genus Galega
genus Galeocerdo
genus Galeopsis
genus Galeorhinus
genus Galictis
genus Galium
genus Galleria

Literary usage of Genus Furnarius

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

1. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"The genus Furnarius contains several species, all small birds, living on the ground, and inhabiting open dry countries. In structure they cannot be compared ..."

2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"Upon what grounds, therefore, it is placed by the continuator of Shaw's Zoology (in which work our original figure is copied) in the genus Furnarius, ..."

3. List of the Vertebrated Animals Now Or Lately Living in the Gardens of the by London Zoo (London, England), Philip Lutley Sclater (1883)
"... Genus FURNARIUS. 421. Furnarius rufus (Gm.). Red Oven-bird. Hah. Buenos Ayres. «. Purchased, Oct. ou, 1873. ..."

4. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1875)
"In the typical genus furnarius (Vie'ill.) the bill is moderate, slender, and slightly curved ; wings and tail moderate, and tarsi long. ..."

5. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1866)
"As it ought to be, the genus Furnarius should only contain the three species indicated by D'Azara, and that which we add under the name of ..."

6. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"The genus Furnarius contains several species, all small birds, living on the ground, and inhabiting open dry countries. In structure they cannot be compared ..."

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