Definition of Crotophaga

1. Noun. Ani.

Exact synonyms: Genus Crotophaga
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Cuculidae, Family Cuculidae
Member holonyms: Ani

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crotophaga

Crotalus cerastes
Crotalus horridus atricaudatus
Crotalus horridus horridus
Crotalus lepidus
Crotalus mitchellii
Crotalus scutulatus
Crotalus tigris
Crotalus toxin
Crotalus viridis
Crotaphytus
Croton bug
Croton bugs
Croton eluteria
Croton tiglium
Crotone
Crotophaga
Crouchy
Crouse
Crouzon's syndrome
Crouzon syndrome
Crow
Crow Point
Crowe
Crowleyan
Crowleyans
Crown Colony
Crown Estate
Crown Vic
Crown land

Literary usage of Crotophaga

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

1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"crotophaga, Lin. The Ani(l) are known by their beak, which is thick, compressed, ... crotophaga major, and Croto. am, Enl. 102, fig. 1 and 2; Vieill. Gal. ..."

2. Argentine Ornithology: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Birds of the Argentine by Philip Lutley Sclater, William Henry Hudson (1889)
"and others of terrestrial habits (crotophaga, Geococcyx, ... crotophaga ani, Sci. et Salv. A'omend. p. 107; White, PZS 1882, p. 019 (Salta). Description. ..."

3. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum by Richard Bowdler Sharpe, British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology (1891)
"crotophaga, Lorn. Syst. Nat. ip 164 (17(36) C. ani. Hange. Southern United States ; Central and Southern America ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1901)
"crotophaga seems in the main to agree also in the nature and arrangement of its ribs; they differ, however, in the specimens before me by having a very ..."

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