Definition of Genus Caprimulgus

1. Noun. Type genus of the Caprimulgidae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Caprimulgus

genus Canangium
genus Canavalia
genus Cancer
genus Candida
genus Canella
genus Canis
genus Canna
genus Cannabis
genus Cantharellus
genus Capella
genus Capparis
genus Capra
genus Caprella
genus Capreolus
genus Capricornis
genus Caprimulgus (current term)
genus Capros
genus Capsella
genus Capsicum
genus Caragana
genus Caranx
genus Carcharhinus
genus Carcharias
genus Carcharodon
genus Cardamine
genus Cardium
genus Carduelis
genus Carduus

Literary usage of Genus Caprimulgus

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

1. Illustrations of British Ornithology by Prideaux John Selby (1833)
"genus Caprimulgus, LINN. GOATSUCKER. GENERIC CHARACTERS. Bill very short, weak, curved at the tip, broad and depressed at the base; the upper mandible ..."

2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1893)
"... in the genus Caprimulgus, which, as thus defined, includes about 50 species and subspecies, and has a nearly cosmopolitan distribution. ..."

3. A Monograph of the Jumping Plant-lice: Or Psyllidæ, of the New World by David Livingston Crawford (1914)
"1), the type of Caprimulgus Linnaeus,1 for it is plain that the genus Caprimulgus, even restricted to Old World species, is a very heterogeneous group, ..."

4. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1848)
"Of the genus Caprimulgus one species was obtained; the specimen so poor that nothing can be made of it. Of the genus Columba were procured two species, ..."

5. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"... in the wings and tail, or have other ornamental plumes during the breeding-season. THE TRUE NIGHT-JARS. genus Caprimulgus. Caprimulgus, Linn. Syst. ..."

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