Definition of Genus Mimus

1. Noun. Type genus of the family Mimidae: mockingbirds.

Exact synonyms: Mimus
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Family Mimidae, Mimidae
Member holonyms: Mimus Polyglotktos, Mocker, Mockingbird

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Mimus

genus Micromeria
genus Micromyx
genus Micropogonias
genus Micropterus
genus Microsorium
genus Microsporum
genus Microstomus
genus Microstrobos
genus Microtus
genus Micruroides
genus Micrurus
genus Mikania
genus Millettia
genus Miltonia
genus Mimosa
genus Mimus (current term)
genus Minuartia
genus Mirabilis
genus Mirounga
genus Mitchella
genus Mitella
genus Mnium
genus Mobula
genus Moehringia
genus Mohria
genus Mola
genus Mollienesia
genus Molluga
genus Moloch
genus Molothrus

Literary usage of Genus Mimus

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

1. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"The restricted genus mimus has the bill shorter than the head, slightly curved from the base, and notched at the tip; the gape furnished with bristles ..."

2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1907)
"Monotypic, with Orpheus montanus Townsend as type. genus Mimus Mimus BOIE, Isis, 1826, 972. Monotypic, with Turdus polyglottos Linn, as type. ..."

3. Check-list of North American Birds by American Ornithologists' Union (1910)
"... to northern Mexico (Chihuahua and Tamaulipas), and Cape San Lucas, and casually to Guadalupe Island. genus Mimus BOIE. Mimus BOIE, Isis, XIX, 1826, 972. ..."

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