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Definition of Musophagidae
1. Noun. Touracos.
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Cuculiformes, Order Cuculiformes
Member holonyms: Genus Musophaga, Musophaga, Touraco, Turaco, Turacou, Turakoo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Musophagidae
Literary usage of Musophagidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1893)
"The plantain eaters or musophagidae are arranged in six genera and ... on the
musophagidae were exhibited.] The family is confined to Africa ; eight of the ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... and that when it diverges from them it is ui generis or approaches the
musophagidae." He ac- ly regarded it as the type and sole member of a group, ..."
3. The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late Alfred Henry Garrod by Alfred Henry Garrod, William Alexander Forbes (1881)
"In the musophagidae, Cuculidae, Coraciidae, Galbulidae, and Alcedinidae we know
that both a right and a left artery are always developed ;* whilst in the ..."
4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1892)
"... and musophagidae, by Mr. Shelley. The number of species recognized is 448, of
which onlv p are not represented in the British Museum. ..."
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