Definition of Genus Falco

1. Noun. A genus of Falconidae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Falco

genus Euplectella
genus Euproctis
genus Eurotium
genus Euryale
genus Eustoma
genus Eutamias
genus Euterpe
genus Euthynnus
genus Evernia
genus Exacum
genus Exaeretodon
genus Fabiana
genus Fagopyrum
genus Fagus
genus Falcatifolium
genus Falco (current term)
genus Fasciola
genus Fasciolopsis
genus Feijoa
genus Felicia
genus Felis
genus Ferocactus
genus Festuca
genus Ficus
genus Filago
genus Firmiana
genus Fissurella
genus Fistularia
genus Fistulina
genus Flacourtia

Literary usage of Genus Falco

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

1. 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 (1829)
"Linnaeus comprehended the eagles, with many other groups, under his genus falco; instruction. Every method of securing and concentrating this attention must ..."

2. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1921)
"... to a genus, Falco rusli- colus Linnaeus and Falco mexicanus Schlegel become ... bring raised from a subgenus to a genus, Falco spar- and verius Linnaeus ..."

3. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1917)
"Recognized as a genus (cf. BOU Committee, Lint Brit. Birds, 1915, pp. 147-148). Includes the following North American species now in the genus Falco: ..."

4. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society by Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1818)
"Observations on some Species of the Genus FALCO O/LINN.S:US. By JAMES WILSON, Esq. (Read 1st February 1817. JI am induced to lay the following ..."

5. An introduction to the Birds of Australia by John Gould (1848)
"Genus FALCO. As they are the most typical of all the Hawks, so are the members of the genus Falco the most universally dispersed over the face of the globe; ..."

6. Annals of Philosophy, Or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics by Thomas Thomson (1819)
"Observations on some Species of the genus Falco of ... The genus Falco is one of the most obscure departments of natural history ; several different names ..."

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