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Definition of Phalacrocorax
1. Noun. Type genus: coextensive with the family Phalacrocoracidae.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Phalacrocoracidae, Phalacrocoracidae
Member holonyms: Cormorant, Phalacrocorax Carbo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phalacrocorax
Literary usage of Phalacrocorax
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1915)
"Anterior aspect of distal moiety of the left tarso-metatarsus of Phalacrocorax
carbo. (No. 18851, Coll. US Nat. Mus.) FIG. 121. Anterior aspect of right ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1915)
"Subsequently, Cope described this extinct cormorant and named it Graculus
macropus.1 Several years afterwards, under the name Phalacrocorax macro- pus, ..."
3. The Birds of America by John James] [Audubon (1843)
"... cocca small; rectum narrow; cloaca globular. Trachea considerably flattened;
bronchi of moderate width. THE COMMON CORMORANT. Phalacrocorax CARBO, Linn. ..."