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GENUS CURSORIUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Cursorius mean?
• GENUS CURSORIUS (noun)
The noun GENUS CURSORIUS has 1 sense:
1. coursers
Familiarity information: GENUS CURSORIUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coursers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Cursorius; genus Cursorius
Hypernyms ("genus Cursorius" is a kind of...):
bird genus (a genus of birds)
Meronyms (members of "genus Cursorius"):
cream-colored courser; Cursorius cursor (courser of desert and semidesert regions of the Old World)
Holonyms ("genus Cursorius" is a member of...):
family Glareolidae; Glareolidae (Old World shorebirds: pratincoles and coursers)
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