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Definition of Motmots
1. motmot [n] - See also: motmot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Motmots
Literary usage of Motmots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Voyage Up the River Amazon: Including a Residence at Pará by William Henry Edwards (1847)
"... scene upon the water—Arrival—Vicinity of the mills—A Brazilian
forest—Sporting—Toucans—Chattere;s--motmots— Manikins—Humming-birds—Snake
stories—Absence ..."
2. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1882)
"(6) In the small amount of ossification in the interorbital septum, this, in the
motmots, being nearly entirely osseous. (7) In the shape of the sternum, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"100-102) has since partly demurred, though admitting the Kingfisher affinity,
while upholding the former, and even declaring that motmots and Todies form ..."
4. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederic Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"motmots have loose-webbed green, blue, cinnamon, and black plumage ... motmots are
not shy birds, though they inhabit dense forests and seldom visit the ..."
5. A Voyage Up the River Amazon: Including a Residence at Pará by William Henry Edwards (1847)
"... scene upon the water—Arrival—Vicinity of the mills—A Brazilian
forest—Sporting—Toucans—Chattere;s--motmots— Manikins—Humming-birds—Snake
stories—Absence ..."
6. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1882)
"(6) In the small amount of ossification in the interorbital septum, this, in the
motmots, being nearly entirely osseous. (7) In the shape of the sternum, ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"100-102) has since partly demurred, though admitting the Kingfisher affinity,
while upholding the former, and even declaring that motmots and Todies form ..."
8. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederic Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"motmots have loose-webbed green, blue, cinnamon, and black plumage ... motmots are
not shy birds, though they inhabit dense forests and seldom visit the ..."
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