Definition of Genus Loxia

1. Noun. Crossbill.

Exact synonyms: Loxia
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Fringillidae, Fringillidae
Member holonyms: Crossbill, Loxia Curvirostra

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Loxia

genus Lomogramma
genus Lonas
genus Lonchocarpus
genus Lonicera
genus Lophius
genus Lophodytes
genus Lopholatilus
genus Lophophora
genus Lophophorus
genus Lophosoria
genus Loranthus
genus Loris
genus Lota
genus Lotus
genus Lovoa
genus Loxia (current term)
genus Loxodonta
genus Loxoma
genus Loxostege
genus Lucilia
genus Lufengpithecus
genus Luffa
genus Lumpenus
genus Lunaria
genus Lunda
genus Lupinus
genus Luscinia
genus Lutjanus
genus Lutra
genus Luvarus

Literary usage of Genus Loxia

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

1. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"genus Loxia Loxia LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 171. ... By general consent the Crossbills thus constitute the restricted genus Loxia, ..."

2. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1890)
"Genus LOXIA, Linn., 1706. The genus Loxia contains one Indian species of Finch which may be recognized at n glance by the peculiar structure of the bill, ..."

3. Contributions to the Natural History of Alaska: Results of Investigations by Lucien McShan Turner (1886)
"Pine Grosbeak. Genus PYRRHULA Brisson. [516.] PYRRHULA CASSINI (Baird). Cassin's Bullfinch. Genus LOXIA Linnaeus. 521. ..."

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