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Definition of Genus Sula
1. Noun. Type genus of the Sulidae.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Sulidae, Sulidae
Member holonyms: Solan, Solan Goose, Solant Goose, Sula Bassana, Booby
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Sula
Literary usage of Genus Sula
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Visitor, Or, Monthly Instructor by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1838)
"By modern ornithologists, the genus Sula is placed in the family ... With respect
to the restricted genus Sula, it is " characterized by a long bill, ..."
2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"... is wrongly taken from Brisson who did not use it in a generic sense, but only
as a species name for species 6 of his genus Sula namely [S«/a] fregata. ..."
3. Handbook to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1865)
"Much as has been said respecting the natural stupidity of other species of the
genus Sula—Boobies as they are called,—the present appeared to be the Booby ..."
4. Reports Dealing with the Systematic Geology and Paleontology of Maryland by Maryland Geological Survey (1904)
"... I find it resembles closely the genus Sula. " The glenoid articular face
descends to opposite the proximal third of the length; it is transversely ..."
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