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Definition of Sterninae
1. Noun. Terns.
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Family Laridae, Laridae
Member holonyms: Tern, Genus Sterna, Sterna
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sterninae
Literary usage of Sterninae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederic Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"... said to be hard or soft according to the season, and possibly shed after the
manner of certain Auks.3 In the Sterninae the beak is nearly straight and 1 ..."
2. Biographical Memoirs by National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) (1909)
"A Review of the Terns [SternInae] of North America. Proc. Acad. Nat . Scl.
Philadelphia, Vol. XIV, December, 1862, pp. 535 559. Republished, with additions ..."
3. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"Sterninae becomes Sternidae, because raised to family rank. (Cf. Ridgway, Bull.
US Nat. Mus., No. 50, VIII, June 26, 1919, p. 449. ..."
4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1869)
"to the Sterninae, is expressive of a strong analogy, traceable both in general
conditions and special characters. As to the former, I need only refer to ..."
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