|
|
Definition of Genus turdus
1. Noun. Type genus of the Turdidae.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Turdidae, Turdidae
Member holonyms: Missel Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Mistletoe Thrush, Turdus Viscivorus, Mavis, Song Thrush, Throstle, Turdus Philomelos, Fieldfare, Snowbird, Turdus Pilaris, Redwing, Turdus Iliacus, Blackbird, European Blackbird, Merl, Merle, Ousel, Ouzel, Turdus Merula, Ring Blackbird, Ring Ouzel, Ring Thrush, Turdus Torquatus, American Robin, Robin, Turdus Migratorius, Clay-colored Robin, Turdus Greyi
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Turdus
Literary usage of Genus turdus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1837)
"For particulars con- come under the genus Turdus (Merle de la Nouvelle I beech.
The seed consists of a roundish embryo, ..."
2. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"M. Horsfieldi, Vigors (Gould's ' Century,' pi. 20). Inhabits Nilgiris (nee Himalaya).
Genus TURDUS, L. Sub-genus ..."
3. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1890)
"Genus TURDUS, Linn., 1706. The genus Turdus contains those Thrushes in which the
sexes are alike and the under wing-coverts and axillaries of one colour. ..."
4. Key to North American Birds: Containing a Concise Account of Every Species by Elliott Coues (1872)
"... p roper j most of them being referable to the single genus Turdus with its
subgenera. They arc nearly cosmopolitan, and have a great development in the ..."
5. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"The birds which constitute the genus Turdus number among them the Thrushes best
known to us, such as the Song-Thrush, and Mistle-Thrush, the Redwing, ..."
Other Resources:
