Definition of Genus buteo

1. Noun. Broad-winged soaring hawks.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Buteo

genus Buceros
genus Buchloe
genus Buckleya
genus Buddleia
genus Budorcas
genus Bufo
genus Bulnesia
genus Bumelia
genus Bungarus
genus Buphthalmum
genus Burhinus
genus Burmannia
genus Burmeisteria
genus Bursera
genus Butea
genus Buteo
genus Buxus
genus Cabomba
genus Cacajao
genus Cacalia
genus Cacatua
genus Cacicus
genus Cadra
genus Caenolestes
genus Caesalpinia
genus Caiman
genus Cairina
genus Cajanus
genus Cakile

Literary usage of Genus buteo

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

1. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1895)
"Genus BUTEO, Cu.vier, 1800. In the genus Buteo the bill is small or moderate, the culmen is curved from the cere, the commissure nearly straight, ..."

2. An introduction to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1848)
"Genus BUTEO. Several species of the genus Buteo are dispersed over the great continents of Europe, Asia, Africa and America, but only one has yet been ..."

3. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"genus buteo. Buteo CUVIER, Le$. d'Anat. Comp., I, tabl. ii, 1799. Proposed for the "Buses." In the same author's Tabl. e'le'ment. de 1'Hist. nat., 1798, p. ..."

4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"(Cf. Oberholser, THE AUK, XXXVI, No. 4, October, 1919, pp. 567-568.) Its only North American species, now in the genus Buteo, therefore becomes ..."

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