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Definition of Minivets
1. minivet [n] - See also: minivet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Minivets
Literary usage of Minivets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"The minivets are peculiar to India and Eastern Asia; the Siberian minivet, ...
It is gray above and white below, but the majority of minivets are gaudy in ..."
2. The Birds of Jamaica: Being a History of the Bird, Its Structure, and Habits by Philip Henry Gosse, Alfred Edmund Brehm, Richard Hill (1874)
"... Indian Koel (Eudynamys orientalis), renowned in India for its choice of
Crow's-nests, in which to lay its parasitic eggs; the minivets (Pericrocotus), ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1882)
"The minivets and grass-green fruit-thrushes are also characteristic Oriental birds.
The sun-birds are represented by three genera; bee-eaters and ..."
4. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"... the black and crimson " minivets " (Pericrocotus), and the glossy "
king-crows " (Dicrurus); ..."
5. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1921)
"... Buturlin for the black, white and gray minivets, as it does not seem to me
worth while to subdivide the group. ..."
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