Definition of Strepera

1. Noun. Bell magpies.

Exact synonyms: Genus Strepera
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Cracticidae, Family Cracticidae
Member holonyms: Bell Magpie, Currawong

Lexicographical Neighbors of Strepera

Straussians
Stravinskian
Stravinsky
Stravinskyan
Straw
Streep
Streisand
Streisand effect
Strekelia
Strekelia formosissima
Strelitz
Strelitzes
Strelitzia
Strelitzia reginae
Strelitziaceae
Strepera (current term)
Strephon
Strepsiceros
Strepsirhini
Streptococcus anhemolyticus
Streptomyces erythreus
Streptomyces griseus
Streptomyces scabies
Streptomycetaceae
Streptopelia
Streptopelia risoria
Streptopelia turtur
Streptosolen
Streptosolen jamesonii
Strickland

Literary usage of Strepera

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)
"Strepera plumbea, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., part xiv. p. 20. ... Dje-laak, Aborigines of Western Australia. Squeaker of the Colonists. Strepera ..."

2. A History of British Birds by William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders (1884)
"Anas strepera. THE GADWALL, or Grey Duck, is, on the whole, a rare visitor to the British Islands ; although, owing to the resemblance of the female and ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1858)
"SMITH exhibited an adult male, female, and yonng male of the Gadwall duck (Anas strepera), shot on the Forth, near Kincardine, in the beginning of this ..."

4. The Field Book: Or, Sports and Pastimes of the United Kingdom; Comp. from (1833)
"GADWALL, or GRAY, (Anas strepera, LINN. ; Le Chipeau, BUFF.), *. a bird. VJ The gadwall is less than the mallard, measuring about nineteen inches in length, ..."

5. An introduction to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1848)
"Strepera fuliginosa, Gould Vol. II. PI . 43. 85. Strepera Arguta, Gould Vol. II. ... Like /Strepera this is strictly an Australian form, all the species of ..."

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