Definition of Genus Tetrao

1. Noun. Type genus of the Tetraonidae: capercaillies.

Exact synonyms: Tetrao
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Tetraonidae, Tetraonidae
Member holonyms: Capercaillie, Capercailzie, Horse Of The Wood, Tetrao Urogallus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Tetrao

genus Templetonia
genus Tenrec
genus Tephrosia
genus Terebella
genus Teredo
genus Termes
genus Terrapene
genus Terrietia
genus Testudo
genus Tethus
genus Tetraclinis
genus Tetragonia
genus Tetragonurus
genus Tetrahymena
genus Tetraneuris
genus Tetrao (current term)
genus Tetrapturus
genus Teucrium
genus Thalarctos
genus Thalictrum
genus Thamnophilus
genus Thamnophis
genus Thelypteris
genus Theobroma
genus Thermobia
genus Thermopsis
genus Thespesia
genus Thevetia
genus Thielavia

Literary usage of Genus Tetrao

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

1. Echoes from the Backwoods: Or, Sketches of Transatlantic Life by Richard George Augustus Levinge (1846)
"Passenger Pigeons—Wild and Water fowl—Novel way of gunning—genus Tetrao—Birch and Spruce Partridge— Humming-birds—Wax-bird—Soiree of ..."

2. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"... in his last edition of tho ' Systema Naturae,' places the genus Tetrao at the end of his fifth order, Gallina, next to the genus Numida. ..."

3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"Those to which the name G. is popularly given have the legs feathered to the feet, but in the genus Tetrao, as now restricted by ornithologists, ..."

4. Chambers' Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1874)
"Those to which the name G. is popularly given have the legs feathered to the feet, but in the genus Tetrao, os now restricted by ornithologists, ..."

5. The Code of Nomenclature and Check-list of North American Birds Adopted by by American Ornithologists' Union (1886)
"By the unrestricted action of the principle of elimination the genus Tetrao, for example, becomes transferred to an American species, viz., ..."

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