Definition of Cuculus

1. Noun. Type genus of the Cuculidae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Cuculus
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Cuculidae, Family Cuculidae
Member holonyms: Cuculus Canorus, European Cuckoo

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cuculus

Cuban monetary unit
Cuban peso
Cuban red macaw
Cuban red macaws
Cuban sandwich
Cuban sandwiches
Cuban spinach
Cubanism
Cubans
Cubist
Cubists
Cubs
Cuca
Cuculidae
Cuculiformes
Cuculus
Cuculus canorus
Cucumis
Cucumis melo
Cucumis melo cantalupensis
Cucumis melo inodorus
Cucumis melo reticulatus
Cucumis sativus
Cucurbita
Cucurbita foetidissima
Cucurbita maxima
Cucurbita maxima turbaniformis
Cucurbita mixta
Cucurbita moschata

Literary usage of Cuculus

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)
"(4) The (1) cuculus pisanus, Gm. is the young. (2) cuculus capensis, Vaill. Afr. pl. 200, which is probably nothing more than a variety of the common one ..."

2. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"... as will be seen by the measurements. Axis, 1-25-1-4 inch; diam., 0-95-1-05. THE TRUE CUCKOOS. GENUS cuculus. cuculus, Linn. Syst. Nat. ip 168(1766). ..."

3. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1895)
"CucULUS, p.. b-. Secondaries two-thirds length of primaries a-. Secondaries in closed wing scarcely or more. a". Tail rounded and graduated. with 3 or 4 ..."

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