Definition of Genus Myadestes

1. Noun. Solitaires.

Exact synonyms: Myadestes
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Turdidae, Turdidae
Member holonyms: Solitaire

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Myadestes

genus Muntiacus
genus Muntingia
genus Mus
genus Musa
genus Musca
genus Muscardinus
genus Muscari
genus Muscicapa
genus Muscivora
genus Musophaga
genus Mustela
genus Mustelus
genus Mutinus
genus Mutisia
genus Mya
genus Myadestes (current term)
genus Mycobacterium
genus Mycoplasma
genus Mycteria
genus Mycteroperca
genus Mylodon
genus Myocastor
genus Myopus
genus Myosotis
genus Myotis
genus Myrciaria
genus Myrica
genus Myricaria
genus Myriophyllum
genus Myristica

Literary usage of Genus Myadestes

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 (1884)
"... contains the single genus Myadestes, from which, however, M. leucotis (Tschudi) is removed, being transferred, as the type of a new genus ..."

2. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1889)
"... the first containing the genus Myadestes, and represented by the sole species M. townsendii, and the second the genera ..."

3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"In America the name solitaire is given to the flycatching thrushes of the genus Myadestes, species of which occur in Jamaica, Martinique, and other West ..."

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