Definition of Genus Lophophorus

1. Noun. Monals.

Exact synonyms: Lophophorus
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Phasianidae, Phasianidae
Member holonyms: Monal, Monaul

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Lophophorus

genus Locusta
genus Lofortyx
genus Logania
genus Loiseleuria
genus Loligo
genus Lolium
genus Lomatia
genus Lomogramma
genus Lonas
genus Lonchocarpus
genus Lonicera
genus Lophius
genus Lophodytes
genus Lopholatilus
genus Lophophora
genus Lophophorus (current term)
genus Lophosoria
genus Loranthus
genus Loris
genus Lota
genus Lotus
genus Lovoa
genus Loxia
genus Loxodonta
genus Loxoma
genus Loxostege
genus Lucilia
genus Lufengpithecus
genus Luffa
genus Lumpenus

Literary usage of Genus Lophophorus

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

1. The Natural History of Game-birds by William Jardine (1860)
"genus Lophophorus,— TEMMINCK instituted this genus in the Histoire Naturelle des Pigeons et ... Genus LOPHOPHORUS."

2. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"... the genus Oallas; the genus Lophophorus ; and the genus Numida. Cuvier makes his Paons consist of the true Peacocks (Pavo, Linn. ..."

3. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society by Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1838)
"... of the spur in the male, which is so prominent in the other species which have been included in the genus Lophophorus, this has now formed a new genus. ..."

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