Definition of Genus Circus

1. Noun. A genus of haws comprising the harriers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Circus

genus Chrysothamnus
genus Chunga
genus Cibotium
genus Cicada
genus Cicer
genus Cichorium
genus Ciconia
genus Cicuta
genus Cimex
genus Cimicifuga
genus Cinchona
genus Cinclus
genus Cinnamomum
genus Circaea
genus Circaetus
genus Circus (current term)
genus Cirsium
genus Cistothorus
genus Cistus
genus Citellus
genus Citharichthys
genus Citroncirus
genus Citrullus
genus Citrus
genus Cladonia
genus Cladorhyncus
genus Cladrastis
genus Clangula
genus Clathrus
genus Claviceps

Literary usage of Genus Circus

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

1. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... used in a generic sense for all the species ranked under the genus Circus of ... consider that the genus Circus, though undoubtedly belonging to the ..."

2. Magazine of Zoology and Botany by Prideaux John Selby, George Johnston, William Jardine (1838)
"This group, as he observes, might with more propriety have been called Harriers, as it is the genus Circus which exhibits the ..."

3. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"Montagu's Harrier, like several other species of the genus Circus, is subject to melanism, and old birds are sometimes found nearly black, while the young ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... in a generic sense for all the species ranked under the genus Circus of Lacépède, and the second confined to the particular species which is the Falco ..."

5. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"genus Circus. Circus LACEPEDE, Mem. de 1'Inst., Ill, 1801, 506. Based on a diagnosis only, with no species referred to the group. ..."

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