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Definition of Balaeniceps

1. Noun. Type genus of the Balaenicipitidae: shoebills.

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Balaeniceps

bakshishing Baku Bakunin bal balaam balachong balaclava balaclavas balaclava helmet baladin

baladine baladines baladins Balaena Balaena mysticetus Balaeniceps (current term) Balaeniceps rex Balaenicipitidae Balaenidae balaenoidea

Balaenoptera Balaenoptera acutorostrata Balaenoptera borealis Balaenoptera musculus Balaenoptera physalus Balaenopteridae balagan balalaika balalaikas balance

Literary usage of Balaeniceps

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

1. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"The state of the chick is unrecorded in Balaeniceps ... Balaeniceps has a big pair on the lower back, Botaurus and ..."

2. The Heart of Africa: Three Years' Travels and Adventures in the Unexplored by Georg August Schweinfurth, Ellen Elizabeth Frewer (1874)
"This Balaeniceps would seem to furnish a proof that not everything in nature is perfectly adapted to its end, for when the birds are full grown, ..."

3. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1898)
"Balaeniceps, Gould, PZS 1851, p. 1 . ... Hange. The region of the Tipper "White Nile. 1 . Balaeniceps rex. Type. ..."

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