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Definition of Genus merops
1. Noun. Type genus of the Meropidae.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Merops
Literary usage of Genus merops
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)
"Of the various forms belonging to this family, we possess but two examples, viz.
a single species of the genus Merops, and another of the genus Coracias, ..."
2. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1895)
"Genus MEROPS, Linn., 1766. Bill very long, slender, and pointed, nostrils partially
covered by plumes ; a few small ..."
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