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Definition of Turdus
1. Noun. Type genus of the Turdidae.
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Turdidae, Turdidae
Member holonyms: Missel Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Mistletoe Thrush, Turdus Viscivorus, Mavis, Song Thrush, Throstle, Turdus Philomelos, Fieldfare, Snowbird, Turdus Pilaris, Redwing, Turdus Iliacus, Blackbird, European Blackbird, Merl, Merle, Ousel, Ouzel, Turdus Merula, Ring Blackbird, Ring Ouzel, Ring Thrush, Turdus Torquatus, American Robin, Robin, Turdus Migratorius, Clay-colored Robin, Turdus Greyi
Definition of Turdus
1. n. A genus of singing birds including the true thrushes.
Medical Definition of Turdus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Turdus
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Literary usage of Turdus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1907)
"turdus pallasi (not of Cabanis) SCLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. ... turdus auduboni
BAIRD, Review Am. Birds, June, 1864,16 (Fort Bridger, Wyoming; coll. US Nat. ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1895)
"turdus viscivorus. Rare, but regular; perhaps 20 a year could be taken. 25.
turdus musicus. Commonest Thrush; 100 to 1000 taken some days. 26. ..."
3. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1862)
"Zool. iii. p. 221. pi. 47, and edit. 1812, iii. p. 342. pi. 58) has been founded
on a specimen of this species. 3. Labrus turdus. ..."
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