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Definition of Menura
1. Noun. Type and sole genus of the family Menuridae.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Menuridae, Menuridae
Member holonyms: Lyrebird
Lexicographical Neighbors of Menura
Literary usage of Menura
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1865)
"Menura alberti, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, Supplement, pL The dense, luxuriant,
and almost impenetrable brushes which skirt the eastern coast of ..."
2. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1802)
"By Major-General Thomas Davies, FRS and LS Read November 4, 1800, Menura. CHAR.
GEN. ... Menura ..."
3. The Wonders of the World, in Nature, Art, and Mind by Robert Sears (1843)
"... on which they repose with an air of ludicrous gravity. Naturalists enumerate
about twenty-five species. THE Menura, OR LYRE-TAIL. [See же SHU. ..."
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