Definitions
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- proper noun A taxonomic
family within theorder Caprimulgiformes — thefrogmouths .
Etymologies
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Podargus + -idae
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Examples
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A new genus of birds (in the frogmouth family, the Podargidae) has been discovered in the Solomon Islands.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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Birds we have the two families of Podargidae and Laniadae, which range over the whole Archipelago and into Australia, and which yet have no representative in Celebes.
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Podargidae and Laniadae, which range over the whole Archipelago and into
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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