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Definition of Milvus
1. Noun. A genus including the common European kits.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Accipitridae, Family Accipitridae
Definition of Milvus
1. n. A genus of raptorial birds, including the European kite.
Medical Definition of Milvus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Milvus
Literary usage of Milvus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1865)
"Genus milvus, Cuv. Asia, Europe, and North Africa are the great strongholds of the
... One of these, the milvus affinis, is so like the M. ater of Europe, ..."
2. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1874)
"Head of milvus regali». Range. The whole of Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia.
... 325. less apparent ; brownish in colour, the 1. milvus ..."
3. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1895)
"Genus milvus, Cuvier, 1800. The true Kites belong to the present genus, ...
milvus govinda. The Common Pariah Kite. milvus govinda, Sykes, PZS 1832, p. ..."
4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"milvus, Bechstein. The Kites have short tarsi, and weak toes and nails, which,
added to a beak equally disproportioned to their size, render them the most ..."
5. The Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland. by William Jardine (1838)
"milvus regalis BRISSON. ... Falco milvus, Linn—milvus regalis, ... milvus vulgaris,
Flem. — Le milan royal, Buff. Temm—Kite of British ornithologists. ..."
6. List of the Specimens of the British Animals in the Collection of the by George Robert Gray, James Francis Stephens, Adam White, Frederick Smith, Henry Denny, Henry Tibbats Stainton, Edwin Shepherd (1848)
"milvus REG ALIS. The Kite. milvus regalis, Briss. Orn. ip 414, t. ... Crit.
des Ois. d'Eur. p. ; GR Gray, Gen. of B. ip 24. Falco milvus, Linn ..."
7. Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology by John Hunter, Richard Owen (1861)
"Or THE KITE [milvus regalis, Briss.]. The oesophagus becomes very large before
it enters the thorax. The stomach is as in birds of this kind, and is pretty ..."
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