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Definition of Genus Apus
1. Noun. Type genus.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Apodidae, Family Apodidae
Member holonyms: Apus Apus, European Swift
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Apus
Literary usage of Genus Apus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1852)
"Genus APUS, Scopoli. Clypeus corneo-coriaceus. ... In the genus Apus, the
tail-segment of the body is rounded, and has no plate or prolongated appendage ..."
2. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Wm S Orr, John Radford Young, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1855)
"The animals are frequently of considerable size ; and the number of feet in the
typical genus Apus (Fig. 116), is as great as sixty ... In the genus Apus ..."
3. Records of General Science by Robert Dundas Thomson, T Thomson (1835)
"as is the case in the recent genus Apus. In our specimen these appendices are of
equal length, and have a similar form, while in the genus Apus, ..."
4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1833)
"It is the type of the genus apus proper of Dr. Leach. He has figured another
species, Apus Montagui, Edin. Encyc. Suppl. i.—xx. ..."
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