Definition of Genus turdus

1. Noun. Type genus of the Turdidae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Turdus

genus Trollius
genus Trombicula
genus Tropaeolum
genus Tropidoclonion
genus Truncocolumella
genus Tsuga
genus Tuber
genus Tubercularia
genus Tulestoma
genus Tulipa
genus Tulostoma
genus Tunga
genus Tupaia
genus Tupinambis
genus Turbatrix
genus Turnix
genus Turreae
genus Turritis
genus Tursiops
genus Tussilago
genus Tylenchus
genus Tympanuchus
genus Typha
genus Tyrannosaurus
genus Tyrannus
genus Tyto
genus Uca
genus Uintatherium
genus Ulex

Literary usage of Genus turdus

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

1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1837)
"For particulars con- come under the genus Turdus (Merle de la Nouvelle I beech. The seed consists of a roundish embryo, ..."

2. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"M. Horsfieldi, Vigors (Gould's ' Century,' pi. 20). Inhabits Nilgiris (nee Himalaya). Genus TURDUS, L. Sub-genus ..."

3. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1890)
"Genus TURDUS, Linn., 1706. The genus Turdus contains those Thrushes in which the sexes are alike and the under wing-coverts and axillaries of one colour. ..."

4. Key to North American Birds: Containing a Concise Account of Every Species by Elliott Coues (1872)
"... p roper j most of them being referable to the single genus Turdus with its subgenera. They arc nearly cosmopolitan, and have a great development in the ..."

5. A Hand-book to the Birds of Great Britain by Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1896)
"The birds which constitute the genus Turdus number among them the Thrushes best known to us, such as the Song-Thrush, and Mistle-Thrush, the Redwing, ..."

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