Definition of Gallinago

1. Noun. Snipes.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Gallinago

Gallegans
Gallego's differentiating solution
Galleria
Galleria mellonella
Gallia
Gallian
Galliano
Gallianos
Gallic
Gallican
Gallicanism
Gallicans
Gallicism
Gallie's transplant
Galliformes
Gallinago
Gallinago gallinago
Gallinago gallinago delicata
Gallinago media
Gallinula
Gallinula chloropus
Gallinula chloropus cachinnans
Gallirallus
Gallo
Gallo-
Gallo-Italian
Gallo-Roman
Gallo-Romans
Gallomania
Gallophilia

Literary usage of Gallinago

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)
"gallinago vulgaris DUBOIS, PI. Col. Ois. Belg., 1858, pi. 182. gallinago ... Very similar to G. gallinago but rectrices 16 instead of 14, the lateral pair ..."

2. The American Sportsman: Containing Hints to Sportsmen, Notes on Shooting by Elisha Jarrett Lewis (1857)
"SCOLOPAX WILSONII—SCOLOPAX gallinago. " To-day we spring the snipe, And, with an eye as keen as does the bird Himself, ..."

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