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Definition of Recurvirostra
1. Noun. Type genus of the Recurvirostridae: avocets.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Recurvirostridae, Recurvirostridae
Member holonyms: Avocet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recurvirostra
Literary usage of Recurvirostra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of America by John James] [Audubon (1843)
"Recurvirostra AMERICANA, Linn. PLATE CCCLIII.—ADULT MALE, AND YOUNG IN WINTER.
The fact of this curious bird's breeding in the interior of our country ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"... and long red feet; it is a rare bird whose habits are but imperfectly known^l)
This is perhaps the only place for the Recurvirostra, Lin. ..."
3. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1919)
"... andina (extralimital).o Recurvirostra AMERICANA Gmelin. AMERICAN AVOCET.
Adults in summer (sexes alike).—Head (except anteriorly), neck, and chest light ..."
4. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1893)
"... recurvirostra. By- CHARLES SCHUCHERT. (Proc. Biological Society of Washington,
vol. viii, pp. 79-82, pi. xi, 1893). A brief account of the developmental ..."
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