Definition of Genus Columba

1. Noun. Type genus of the Columbidae: typical pigeons.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Columba

genus Coereba
genus Coffea
genus Cola
genus Colaptes
genus Colchicum
genus Coleonyx
genus Coleus
genus Colinus
genus Collinsia
genus Collinsonia
genus Collocalia
genus Colobus
genus Colocasia
genus Coluber
genus Colubrina
genus Columba (current term)
genus Columnea
genus Colutea
genus Comandra
genus Comatula
genus Combretum
genus Commelina
genus Commiphora
genus Compsognathus
genus Comptonia
genus Condylura
genus Conepatus
genus Conferva
genus Conilurus
genus Coniogramme

Literary usage of Genus Columba

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

1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1917)
"Ridgway, Bull. US Nat. Mus., No. 50, pt. VII, 1916, pp. 283-307). Includes the following North American species now in the genus Columba: ..."

2. Illustrations of British Ornithology by Prideaux John Selby (1833)
"By former writers, the various birds contained in this family were arranged under one genus (Columba), notwithstanding the difference of character and form ..."

3. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"... being a species of the restricted genus Columba, and a new name would be required for the group universally recognized for more than half a century as ..."

4. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1848)
"Of the genus Columba were procured two species, one of which is in such imperfect plumage that its character cannot be made out. ..."

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