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Definition of Genus corvus
1. Noun. Type genus of the Corvidae: crows and ravens.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Corvidae, Family Corvidae
Member holonyms: Crow, Corvus Corax, Raven, Corvus Frugilegus, Rook, Corvus Monedula, Daw, Jackdaw
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Corvus
Literary usage of Genus corvus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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 (1829)
"Linnaeus included it in his genus corvus, nor does it seem to differ from the
preceding subdivisions of that genus, the jays and the pies, in any thing but ..."
2. An Introduction to the Birds of Great Britain by John Gould (1873)
"Even this indigenous species and its several near allies have been subjected to
a generic separation from the genus Corvus, the term Lycos having been ..."
3. The Metropolitan (1835)
"Reeves impatient to view the seven curious ornithological specimens of the genus
Corvus, that his host had brought with him from the West. ..."
4. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society by Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1823)
"The genus Corvus may be taken next for illustration of the method proposed. ...
In the genus Corvus, therefore, where some difficulty exists, ..."