Spathura
Translingual
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek [Term?] "blade" + "tail".
Proper noun
editSpathura f
- (obsolete) A taxonomic genus within the family Trochilidae – hummingbirds with peculiar tail-feathers expanding into a spatula shape at the end, and leg-muffs, now genera Ocreatus and Loddigesia; called racket-tails.
See also
editReferences
edit- “Spathura”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Spathura”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- Spathura at Index to Organism Names