Definition of Genus Chauna

1. Noun. Crested screamers.

Exact synonyms: Chauna
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Anhimidae, Family Anhimidae
Member holonyms: Crested Screamer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Chauna

genus Chalcis
genus Chalcostigma
genus Chamaea
genus Chamaecrista
genus Chamaecyparis
genus Chamaecytisus
genus Chamaedaphne
genus Chamaeleo
genus Chamaeleon
genus Chamaemelum
genus Chara
genus Charadrius
genus Charina
genus Charronia
genus Chateura
genus Chauna (current term)
genus Cheilanthes
genus Cheiranthus
genus Chelidonium
genus Chelifer
genus Chelone
genus Chelonia
genus Chelydra
genus Chenopodium
genus Chilomastix
genus Chilomeniscus
genus Chilomycterus
genus Chilopsis
genus Chimaera
genus Chimaphila

Literary usage of Genus Chauna

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

1. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"This genus Chauna was established by Illiger for the purpose of separating from the Kamichi, ... and that the genus Chauna should be obliterated. ..."

2. Contributions Toward a Monograph of the Insects of the Lepidopterous Family by John Bernhard Smith (1895)
"305 On the species of the genus Chauna. Proe. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, pp. 74-76, pi. xi. The diagnoses of the three species Chauna cha- varia, ..."

3. Argentine Ornithology: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Birds of the Argentine by Philip Lutley Sclater, William Henry Hudson (1889)
"... species found in Amazonia and the interior of Brazil) the present family contains only one other genus—Chauna—in which the head carries a feather-crest ..."

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