Definition of Genus corvus

1. Noun. Type genus of the Corvidae: crows and ravens.

Exact synonyms: Corvus
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Corvidae, Family Corvidae
Member holonyms: Crow, Corvus Corax, Raven, Corvus Frugilegus, Rook, Corvus Monedula, Daw, Jackdaw

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Corvus

genus Cordaites
genus Cordia
genus Cordyline
genus Cordylus
genus Coregonus
genus Coreopsis
genus Coriandrum
genus Corixa
genus Cornus
genus Corokia
genus Coronilla
genus Corozo
genus Cortaderia
genus Corticium
genus Cortinarius
genus Corvus
genus Coryanthes
genus Corydalis
genus Corydalus
genus Corylopsis
genus Corylus
genus Corynebacterium
genus Corypha
genus Coryphantha
genus Corythosaurus
genus Coscoroba
genus Cosmocampus
genus Cosmos
genus Costia
genus Cotinga

Literary usage of Genus corvus

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, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"Linnaeus included it in his genus corvus, nor does it seem to differ from the preceding subdivisions of that genus, the jays and the pies, in any thing but ..."

2. An Introduction to the Birds of Great Britain by John Gould (1873)
"Even this indigenous species and its several near allies have been subjected to a generic separation from the genus Corvus, the term Lycos having been ..."

3. The Metropolitan (1835)
"Reeves impatient to view the seven curious ornithological specimens of the genus Corvus, that his host had brought with him from the West. ..."

4. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society by Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1823)
"The genus Corvus may be taken next for illustration of the method proposed. ... In the genus Corvus, therefore, where some difficulty exists, ..."

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