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Definition of Genus Caprimulgus
1. Noun. Type genus of the Caprimulgidae.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Caprimulgidae, Family Caprimulgidae
Member holonyms: Caprimulgus Europaeus, European Goatsucker, European Nightjar, Caprimulgus Carolinensis, Chuck-will's-widow, Caprimulgus Vociferus, Whippoorwill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Caprimulgus
Literary usage of Genus Caprimulgus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Illustrations of British Ornithology by Prideaux John Selby (1833)
"genus Caprimulgus, LINN. GOATSUCKER. GENERIC CHARACTERS. Bill very short, weak,
curved at the tip, broad and depressed at the base; the upper mandible ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1893)
"... in the genus Caprimulgus, which, as thus defined, includes about 50 species
and subspecies, and has a nearly cosmopolitan distribution. ..."
3. A Monograph of the Jumping Plant-lice: Or Psyllidæ, of the New World by David Livingston Crawford (1914)
"1), the type of Caprimulgus Linnaeus,1 for it is plain that the genus Caprimulgus,
even restricted to Old World species, is a very heterogeneous group, ..."
4. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1848)
"Of the genus Caprimulgus one species was obtained; the specimen so poor that
nothing can be made of it. Of the genus Columba were procured two species, ..."
5. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"... in the wings and tail, or have other ornamental plumes during the breeding-season.
THE TRUE NIGHT-JARS. genus Caprimulgus. Caprimulgus, Linn. Syst. ..."
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