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Definition of Loxia
1. Noun. Crossbill.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Fringillidae, Fringillidae
Member holonyms: Crossbill, Loxia Curvirostra
Medical Definition of Loxia
1. Synonym: torticollis. Origin: G. Loxos, oblique, slanting (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loxia
Literary usage of Loxia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"loxia ferruginosa, Latham. La Mains, Buffon. Inhabits Java. ... A, Latham, and
which is aleo loxia atricapilla, Vieillot, Diet. Glass, d'fliri, Nat. ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"loxia pyrrhula, L.; Enl. 145; Vieill. Gal . 56; Naum. 111. ... (3) loxia, Briss.(4)
The Crossbills have a compressed beak, and the two mandibles so strongly ..."
3. The Birds of America by John James Audubon (1841)
"loxia, Linn. CROSSBILL. Bill rather long, stout at the base, where it is much
higher than broad, extremely compressed toward the end, the mandibles towards ..."
4. The Natural History of Ireland by William Thompson, James R. Garrett, George Dickie (1849)
"loxia curvirostra, Linn. Has long been known as an occasional visitant to
Ireland: —it has ... Vast flights of crossbills, loxia curvirostra, I believe, ..."
5. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1910)
"loxia curvirostra LI\\.KI;S. RANGE.— Europe, northern Asia, and northern North
America, ... RIDGWAY. Mexican Crossbill. [521 a.] loxia curvirostra ..."
6. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1916)
"Nesting Of the Crossbill (loxia cur ci rostra minor) in Crook Co., Oregon.
— During the summer of 1914 while camped in the yellow pine forest near the ..."
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