Definition of Limosa

1. Noun. Godwits.

Exact synonyms: Genus Limosa
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Scolopacidae, Scolopacidae
Member holonyms: Godwit

Lexicographical Neighbors of Limosa

Limerick
Limerickman
Limerickmen
Limeyland
Limnatis nilotica
Limnobium
Limnocryptes
Limnocryptes minima
Limnodium spongia
Limnodromus
Limnodromus griseus
Limnodromus scolopaceus
Limnos
Limoges
Limonium
Limosa (current term)
Limosa haemastica
Limousin
Limousine
Limpopo
Limulidae
Limulus polyphemus
Lin
Lina
Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
Linanthus dichotomus
Linaria
Linaria canadensis
Linaria vulgaris

Literary usage of Limosa

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

1. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1919)
"Limosa limosa limosa (p.). aa. Smaller (wing 184-195, exposed culmen 73-91.5, tarsus 61-65); white at base of proximal primaries, secondaries, ..."

2. Argentine Ornithology: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Birds of the Argentine by Philip Lutley Sclater, William Henry Hudson (1889)
"Limosa hudsonica, Sei. et Salt: ... to the south of Buenos Ayres ;" and states that in habits it much resembles the Bar-tailed Godwit of Europe (Limosa lap- ..."

3. English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants by James Sowerby, John Thomas Boswell, Phebe Lankester, John William Salter (1870)
"It is to be hoped that any botanist visiting Sutherland will endeavour to clear up this point. Very possibly C. irrigua, С. limosa, С. stygia, ..."

4. English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential by James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1809)
"Cal. of one scale. Cor. none. Stigmas 2 or 3. Female spikes ovate, pendulous. Fruit elliptical, compressed. Root creeping. SYN. Carex limosa. Linn. Sp. PI. ..."

5. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"A Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa) came in from the north, alighted with our decoys, where it spent about ten minutes, chiefly preening itself, a stone's toss ..."

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