Definition of Acanthisitta

1. Noun. A genus of Xenicidae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Acanthisitta

Academism
Academy
Academy Award
Academy Awards
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy of Sciences
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Acadia
Acadia National Park
Acadian
Acadians
Acalypha
Acalypha virginica
Acanthaceae
Acanthia lectularia
Acanthisitta
Acanthisitta chloris
Acanthisittidae
Acanthocereus
Acanthocereus pentagonus
Acanthocereus tetragonus
Acanthocheilonema
Acanthocybium
Acanthocybium solandri
Acanthophis
Acanthophis antarcticus
Acanthoscelides
Acanthoscelides obtectus
Acanthuridae
Acanthurus

Literary usage of Acanthisitta

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

1. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1888)
"acanthisitta chloris, Gray, Ibis, 1862, p. 219; Finsch, JfO 1867, p. ... acanthisitta citrina. Gray, List of Gen. 1842, Л»», p. 6 ; Ellman, Zool. 1861, p. ..."

2. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1882)
"... longipes and acanthisitta Moris, the examination of which has proved to be of ... having some twenty years previously established acanthisitta for ..."

3. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"[Footnote]: " This has hitherto been written acanthisitta; but Professor Newton has drawn my attention to the fact of its being erroneous. ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... of that continent, which doubt is increased by the late Mr Forbes's discovery (Proc. Zool. Society, 1882, pp. 669-571) that the genera acanthisitta and ..."

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