Definition of Tadorna

1. Noun. Sheldrakes.

Exact synonyms: Genus Tadorna
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Anatidae, Family Anatidae
Member holonyms: Sheldrake

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tadorna

Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Taconite
Tactual Performance Test
Tacuba
Taczanowski's tinamou
Taczanowski's tinamous
Tad
Tadarida
Tadarida brasiliensis
Tadeus Reichstein
Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko
Tadirida femorosacca
Tadjik
Tadley
Tadoma
Tadorna
Tadzhik
Tadzhikistan
Tadzhiks
Taegu
Taenia africana
Taenia armata
Taenia demerariensis
Taenia dentata
Taenia equina
Taenia hominis
Taenia hydatigena
Taenia madagascariensis
Taenia minima

Literary usage of Tadorna

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"These are the characters of the genus tadorna, according to Count Salvadori, ... Besides tadorna tadorna, the European species, there is but one other, ..."

2. A History of British Birds by William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders (1884)
"tadorna, Fleming\.—Beak about the length of the head, higher than broad at the base, ... THE Author has adopted the genus tadorna, instituted by Fleming, ..."

3. Handbook to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1865)
"tadorna radjah, Eyton, Mon. of the Anat., p. 106. ... tadorna radjah, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. vii. pl. 8. ..."

4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"tadorna.(I) The bill very much flattened towards the end, and bulging into a ... Jin. tadorna, L.; Enl. 53; Frisch, 166; Naum. I, c. 55, f. 103 and 104. ..."

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