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Definition of Meropidae
1. Noun. Bee-eaters.
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Coraciiformes, Order Coraciiformes
Member holonyms: Genus Merops, Merops, Bee Eater
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meropidae
Literary usage of Meropidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late Alfred Henry Garrod by Alfred Henry Garrod, William Alexander Forbes (1881)
"It sends forwards a Page 512. fasciculus from about its middle, to end like the
similar band in the Meropidae. It is figured in Plato [23] L. fig. 2. ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"... ornithologists in the belief that the kingfishers are in some way more or less
related to the jacamars (Galbulidae) and the bee-eaters (Meropidae). ..."
3. A New System: Or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology by Jacob Bryant (1807)
"Antoninus Liberalis gives a further account ; and says, that the Meropidae were
the sons of '3 Eumelus (a Shepherd) whose father was Merops : and he adds, ..."
4. A New System: Or, An Analysis of Antient Mythology : Wherein an Attempt is by Jacob Bryant (1807)
"The Meropidae were the supposed descendents of Me- rope ; and likewise of Merops.
Who is denoted by the latter, may in some degree be known by the character ..."
5. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1838)
"... to Swainson's Divisions, but his Families seem frequently too small, nor am
I now satisfied, that I have sufficiently consolidated them :— Meropidae are ..."
6. Illustrations of British Ornithology by Prideaux John Selby (1833)
"I have provisionally placed it, as an aberrant form, amongst the Meropidae, as
a further examination may evince the propriety of its transference to the ..."
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