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Definition of Somateria
1. Noun. Eider ducks.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Anatidae, Family Anatidae
Member holonyms: Eider, Eider Duck
Lexicographical Neighbors of Somateria
Literary usage of Somateria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory by William Macgillivray (1852)
"somateria mollissima. Bonap. Comp. List, 57. Male with the frontal angles of the
bill very narrow and, though fleshy, little elevated; the head black above, ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1900)
"... OF THE KING EIDER (somateria SPECTABILIS). BY ARTHUR H. NORTON. IN A private
letter written to me by Mr. Fred Rackliff from Big Green Island, Knox Co., ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1860)
"... and somateria—accompanying the remains of Seals, from the Pleistocene Brick-clays
of ... somateria ..."
4. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1895)
"somateria LEACH, in Ross's Voy. Disc. 1819, App. p. xlviii. ... somateria mollissima
borealis AE BREHM, Verz. Samml. Eur. Vog. 1866, 14. ..."
5. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1910)
"somateria LEACH, in Ross, Voyage Discovery, 1819, App., xlviii. Type, by subs.
desig., ... [somateria mollissima mollissima. Extralimital.] I'. ..."
6. The Philosophy of Zoology: Or, A General View of the Structure, Functions by John Fleming (1822)
"somateria. (Leach). Eider. Base of the bill extending up the forehead, and divided
by a triangular projection of feathers. ..."
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