Definition of Sceloglaux

1. Noun. A genus of Strigidae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Sceloglaux
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Strigidae, Strigidae
Member holonyms: Laughing Jackass, Laughing Owl, Sceloglaux Albifacies

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sceloglaux

Scarpa's foramina
Scarpa's ganglion
Scarpa's hiatus
Scarpa's liquor
Scarpa's membrane
Scarpa's method
Scarpa's staphyloma
Scarpa's triangle
Scartella
Scartella cristata
Scatchard plot
Sceliphron
Sceloglaux (current term)
Sceloglaux albifacies
Sceloporus
Sceloporus graciosus
Sceloporus occidentalis
Sceloporus undulatus
Schacher
Schacher's ganglion
Schadenfreude
Schaeffer-Fulton stain
Schaer's reagent
Schafer
Schafer's method
Schaffer
Schaffer's reflex

Literary usage of Sceloglaux

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

1. Handbook to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1865)
"Genus Sceloglaux, Kaup. But one species of this highly curious form is ... Sceloglaux albifacies, Kaup.—GR Gray, Cat. of Gen. and Subgen. of Birds in Brit. ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1900)
"It may be worth while mentioning that Sceloglaux albifacies has a skull which ... at some future time, to compare the skeleton of Sceloglaux with that of ..."

3. Transactions by Thomas Southwell, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (1899)
"The chance, therefore, of studying a living Sceloglaux, in England and enabling some ... Sceloglaux, which my father puts at the commencement of the ..."

4. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1893)
"The rocks were formerly a favourite haunt of the Sceloglaux, and were for several years my " happy hunting-grounds " for this and other rare species of ..."

5. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"... Gray, a New Zealand owl, which is there called the Laughing - Jackass. See Jackass. 1869. J. Gould, 'Birds of Australia' [Supplement]: " Sceloglaux ..."

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