Definition of Genus Apus

1. Noun. Type genus.

Exact synonyms: Apus
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Apodidae, Family Apodidae
Member holonyms: Apus Apus, European Swift

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Apus

genus Aphrophora
genus Aphyllanthes
genus Apios
genus Apis
genus Apium
genus Aplectrum
genus Aplodontia
genus Aplysia
genus Apocynum
genus Apodemus
genus Apogon
genus Aporocactus
genus Appendicularia
genus Aptenodytes
genus Apteryx
genus Apus (current term)
genus Aquila
genus Aquilegia
genus Ara
genus Arabidopsis
genus Arabis
genus Arachis
genus Aralia
genus Aramus
genus Aranea
genus Araneus
genus Araucaria
genus Araujia
genus Arbutus
genus Arca

Literary usage of Genus Apus

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

1. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1852)
"Genus APUS, Scopoli. Clypeus corneo-coriaceus. ... In the genus Apus, the tail-segment of the body is rounded, and has no plate or prolongated appendage ..."

2. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Wm S Orr, John Radford Young, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1855)
"The animals are frequently of considerable size ; and the number of feet in the typical genus Apus (Fig. 116), is as great as sixty ... In the genus Apus ..."

3. Records of General Science by Robert Dundas Thomson, T Thomson (1835)
"as is the case in the recent genus Apus. In our specimen these appendices are of equal length, and have a similar form, while in the genus Apus, ..."

4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1833)
"It is the type of the genus apus proper of Dr. Leach. He has figured another species, Apus Montagui, Edin. Encyc. Suppl. i.—xx. ..."

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