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Definition of Genus Dinornis

1. Noun. Type genus of the Dinornithidae: large moas.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Dinornis

Literary usage of Genus Dinornis

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

1. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1872)
"... read the eighteenth of his series of memoirs on the extinct birds of the genus Dinornis, in which the characters of u supposed new species of Dinornis, ..."

2. Proceedingsby Zoological Society of London by Zoological Society of London (1882)
"1872, 24 Notice of his eighteenth Memoir on the extinct birds of the genus Dinornis .................... 1872, 605 Notice of his nineteenth Memoir on the ..."

3. Proceedingsby Zoological Society of London by Zoological Society of London (1872)
"1865, 511 Memoir on the Osteology of the Dodo 186C, 4 Notice of two Memoirs on the extinct Birds of the genus Dinornis 1867, 891 Notice of the Thirteenth ..."

4. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1892)
"... the extinct birds of the genus Dinornis. Notice of the twenty-fourth of his series of Memoirs on the extinct birds of the genus Dinornis. ..."

5. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1846)
"... in the cranial organization of the genus Dinornis were described, and the specific distinction of the two mutilated crania pointed out. ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Wing bones are believed to have been entirely wanting in those species which now constitute the genus Dinornis, as also the fourth toe, which is present ..."

7. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1872)
"He conjectures, on good grounds, that this huge raptorial bird preyed upon the voting or feeble individuals of the genus Dinornis, and, with them, ..."

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