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Definition of Tadorna
1. Noun. Sheldrakes.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Anatidae, Family Anatidae
Member holonyms: Sheldrake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tadorna
Literary usage of Tadorna
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"These are the characters of the genus Tadorna, according to Count Salvadori, ...
Besides Tadorna tadorna, the European species, there is but one other, ..."
2. A History of British Birds by William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders (1884)
"Tadorna, Fleming\.—Beak about the length of the head, higher than broad at the base,
... THE Author has adopted the genus Tadorna, instituted by Fleming, ..."
3. Handbook to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1865)
"Tadorna radjah, Eyton, Mon. of the Anat., p. 106. ... Tadorna radjah, Gould,
Birds of Australia, fol., vol. vii. pl. 8. ..."
4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"Tadorna.(I) The bill very much flattened towards the end, and bulging into a ...
Jin. tadorna, L.; Enl. 53; Frisch, 166; Naum. I, c. 55, f. 103 and 104. ..."
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