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Definition of Malaconotinae
1. Noun. An African bush shrikes.
Exact synonyms: Subfamily Malaconotinae
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Family Laniidae, Laniidae
Member holonyms: Bush Shrike, Chlorophoneus, Genus Chlorophoneus
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Family Laniidae, Laniidae
Member holonyms: Bush Shrike, Chlorophoneus, Genus Chlorophoneus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Malaconotinae
Literary usage of Malaconotinae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederic Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"... it is perhaps shortest in the malaconotinae, where—as in all the Family—the
scutes tend more or less to fuse. ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"In mineral., an altered and somewhat hydrated zircon, having a hardness inferior
to that of the original mineral. malaconotinae(mal*akô-nô- ..."