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Definition of Scolopax
1. Noun. Type of the Scolopacidae: Old World woodcocks.
Exact synonyms: Genus Scolopax
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Scolopacidae, Scolopacidae
Member holonyms: Eurasian Woodcock, Scolopax Rusticola
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Scolopacidae, Scolopacidae
Member holonyms: Eurasian Woodcock, Scolopax Rusticola
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scolopax
Literary usage of Scolopax
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1919)
"Genus Scolopax Linnaeus. Scolopax b LINN.EUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 145.
(Type, as designated by Gray, 1840, and by elimination, ..."
2. A History of British Birds by William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders (1884)
"THE WOODCOCK. Scolopax rusticola. Scolopax ... eggs or the young of the Woodcock
have been found, during one summer or another, in almost every * Scolopax ..."
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