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Definition of Coerebidae
1. Noun. The honeycreepers.
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Oscines, Passeres, Suborder Oscines, Suborder Passeres
Member holonyms: Honeycreeper, Coereba, Genus Coereba
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coerebidae
Literary usage of Coerebidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1895)
"JAA Lucas on the Affinities of the Coerebidae.*—Mr. Lucas's paper is a collection
of fragmentary though valuable notes, illustrated with figures of the ..."
2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"Coerebidae.—The Quit-quits have the extensible tongue bifid, and frayed out
terminally. The bill may be conical, but is usually slender, with a notch and ..."
3. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"... so that we might look upon the three peculiar genera of finches, and Certhidea,
the peculiar form of Coerebidae, as among the most ancient inhabitants ..."
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