Definition of Alectura

1. Noun. Brush turkeys.

Exact synonyms: Genus Alectura
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Megapodiidae, Megapodiidae
Member holonyms: Alectura Lathami, Brush Turkey

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alectura

Aldrovanda
Aldrovanda vesiculosa
Alec
Alec Guinness
Alecia
Aleck
Alectis
Alectis ciliaris
Alecto
Alectoria
Alectoris
Alectoris graeca
Alectoris ruffa
Alectorobius talaje
Alectura
Alectura lathami
Aleisha
Aleister
Alejandro
Alekano
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok
Aleksandr Borodin
Aleksandr Feodorovich Kerensky
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Mikjailovich Prokhorov
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Scriabin
Aleksandr Pavlovich
Aleksandr Porfirevich Borodin
Aleksandr Prokhorov

Literary usage of Alectura

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1842)
"The next extract is " On the Habits of the alectura Lathami" by John Gould, ... The alectura was supposed only to inhabit the thick brushes near the coast; ..."

2. The Zoological Miscellany by John Edward Gray (1831)
"The genera Menura, Shaw; Megapodius, Quoy and Gaimard. alectura, Latham ... The genus alectura differs from all the others in this family, ..."

3. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1838)
"nection with the absence of indigenous ruminant quadrupeds); wherefore the erroneous introduction of the alectura into that family, similarly negatives ..."

4. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"... placed it among the Gallinaceous Birds, with the generic name of alectura, which had been previously employed to designate a group of Flycatchers. ..."

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