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Definition of Genus tetrao
1. Noun. Type genus of the Tetraonidae: capercaillies.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Tetraonidae, Tetraonidae
Member holonyms: Capercaillie, Capercailzie, Horse Of The Wood, Tetrao Urogallus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Tetrao
Literary usage of Genus tetrao
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Echoes from the Backwoods: Or, Sketches of Transatlantic Life by Richard George Augustus Levinge (1846)
"Passenger Pigeons—Wild and Water fowl—Novel way of gunning—genus tetrao—Birch
and Spruce Partridge— Humming-birds—Wax-bird—Soiree of ..."
2. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"... in his last edition of tho ' Systema Naturae,' places the genus Tetrao at the
end of his fifth order, Gallina, next to the genus Numida. ..."
3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"Those to which the name G. is popularly given have the legs feathered to the
feet, but in the genus Tetrao, as now restricted by ornithologists, ..."
4. Chambers' Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1874)
"Those to which the name G. is popularly given have the legs feathered to the
feet, but in the genus Tetrao, os now restricted by ornithologists, ..."
5. The Code of Nomenclature and Check-list of North American Birds Adopted by by American Ornithologists' Union (1886)
"By the unrestricted action of the principle of elimination the genus Tetrao, for
example, becomes transferred to an American species, viz., ..."
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