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Definition of Threnodes
1. threnode [n] - See also: threnode
Lexicographical Neighbors of Threnodes
Literary usage of Threnodes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1901)
"43 (42) Depression of second ventral segment narrower and deeper, ? with the
scutellum differing little from the mesothorax in its punctures... O. threnodes ..."
2. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1895)
"Cacomantis threnodes, Cab. $ Heine, Mia. Hem. iv, p. 19 (1863); (1839-1844).
Hume $ Dav. ... Some birds (C. threnodes) are much darker than others. ..."
3. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1891)
"02 Cuculus threnodes, Gray, Hand-l, B. ii. p. 217, no. 9017. (1877). Adult male.
... Cacomantis threnodes, Cab., a rather darker bird with a deeper ..."
4. Greek Melic Poets by Herbert Weir Smyth (1900)
"... to the songs of the hired threnodes, which were probably of a fixed type, and
the responsive lamentations of the chorus, solos are sung by Andromache, ..."
5. Greek Melic Poets by Herbert Weir Smyth (1900)
"In addition to the songs of the hired threnodes, which were probably of a fixed
type, and the responsive lamentations of the chorus, solos are sung by ..."
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