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Definition of Luscinia
1. Noun. Nightingales.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Turdidae, Turdidae
Member holonyms: Luscinia Megarhynchos, Nightingale, Luscinia Luscinia, Thrush Nightingale
Lexicographical Neighbors of Luscinia
Literary usage of Luscinia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"In Persia it is often called the Bulbul-i-hazar dastan, the bulbul of a thousand
notes, and its genus, Luscinia, is very closely allied to the email ..."
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)
"Luscinia, Lin.) Enl. 615. 2. Reddish-brown above; whitish-gray underneath, the
tail a little more red. Every body knows this songster of the night, ..."
3. British Song Birds: Being Popular Descriptions and Anecdotes of the by Neville Wood (1836)
"BRAKE NIGHTINGALE,* Philomela luscinia, SWAINS. Beautiful Nightingale, who shall
pourtray All the varying turns of thy flowing lay ! And where is the lyre, ..."
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