Numida

Definitions

proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Numididae — the helmeted guineafowl.

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We start with Helmeted guineafowl Numida meleagris (photo at left).

Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006
That funny bird (Meleagris gallopavo) over there looks like what we call a turkey cock (Numida meleagris) back home.

Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » The polysemous paragon, or How the turkey got its name 2007
For Third World villages, the guinea fowl (Numida meleagris) could become much more valuable than it is today.

5 Chicken 1991
- Gray-breasted guinea fowl (Numida meleagris galeata).

5 Chicken 1991
- Tufted guinea fowl (Numida meleagris meleagris).

5 Chicken 1991
Ceterum ad simulandam pacem, cujus Numida defessus bello avidissimus, quae utilia visa, constituunt.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
Erat ei Numida quidam negotiorum curator, fidus acceptusque et omnium consiliorum nisi novissimi particeps.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
_Numida_ masculine substantive and adjective, 294-95

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
Erat praeterea in exercitu nostro Numida quidam, nomine Gauda,

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
Numida mandata brevi conficit atque, uti doctus erat, noctu Jugurthae milites introducit.

C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust