Definition of Genus fulica

1. Noun. Coots.

Exact synonyms: Fulica
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Rallidae, Rallidae
Member holonyms: Coot, American Coot, Fulica Americana, Marsh Hen, Mud Hen, Water Hen, Fulica Atra, Old World Coot

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Fulica

genus Francisella
genus Francoa
genus Frankliniella
genus Frasera
genus Fratercula
genus Fraxinus
genus Freesia
genus Fregata
genus Fremontia
genus Fremontodendron
genus Fringilla
genus Fritillaria
genus Froelichia
genus Fuchsia
genus Fucus
genus Fulica
genus Fulmarus
genus Fumaria
genus Fundulus
genus Fungia
genus Funka
genus Furnarius
genus Fusanus
genus Fusarium
genus Fuscoboletinus
genus Gadus
genus Gaillardia
genus Galago
genus Galax
genus Galega

Literary usage of Genus fulica

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

1. Catalogue of the Hunterian Collection in the Museum of the Royal College of by Museum, Royal College of Surgeons in London (1831)
"Presented by W. Bullock, Esq. Presented by W. Bullock, Esq. Genus FULICA.—(Lin•.) Sub-Genus FULICA.—(Briss) 1372. The skeleton of the Common Gallinule, ..."

2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"genus fulica. Fulica LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 152. 4 species, representing 4 modern genera and 2 families. ..."

3. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1915)
"... it would be a reasonable thing to refer the species to which it belonged to the genus Fulica, thus removing it from the Crane-Snipe group to one where ..."

4. The Voyage of François Leguat of Bresse, to Rodriguez, Mauritius, Java, and by François Le Guat, Samuel Pasfield Oliver (1891)
"... of the genus fulica, which formerly inhabited the Island of Mauritius", by MA MILNE-EDWARDS.1 The species, which M. Milne-Edwards notices in his memoir, ..."

5. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"... does not agree with my observation; I have always found it uniformly colored, as Wilson describes it. I found no birds of the genus Fulica in Brazil ..."

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