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Definition of Genus pterocles
1. Noun. Type genus of the Pteroclididae.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Pteroclididae, Pteroclididae
Member holonyms: Painted Sandgrouse, Pterocles Indicus, Pin-tailed Grouse, Pin-tailed Sandgrouse, Pterocles Alchata
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Pterocles
Literary usage of Genus pterocles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"Both species occur in Asia, but occasionally migrate into Europe, even as far as
England, in great numbers. The genus Pterocles contains the four-toed forms ..."
2. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"... and the Pigeons (Columbi the first-named family a species of the type genus
Pterocles 1 described from the Allier Miocene. ..."
3. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1889)
"Genus PTEROCLES, Temm., 1815. Bill small, arched above ; nostrils elongate, basal,
almost covered by frontal plumes ; wings long and pointed ; tail moderate ..."
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