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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Columbidae.

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Examples

  • One of the most distinctive features of the Mitchell Grass Downs are the extraordinary irruptions of its two most characteristic and pivotal animal species, the flock bronzewing (Phaps histrionica) and the long-haired rat (Rattus vilosissimus).

    Mitchell grass downs 2007

  • Department of Military Justice, in turn, would turn the remains over to PAVN's Forensic Office ((Phongf Phaps Y)) located at Hospital

    060392.OH 04/27/96 1996

  • Forensic Institute ((Vieenj Phaps Y)), and has moved to a separate facility adjacent to Hospital 108.

    060392.OH 04/27/96 1996

  • But his sight was poor he'd worked himself into such an emotional te over seeing her, it was nineteen years, and Phaps She wasn't very kind and -- oh, I don't

    Put On By Cunning Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1981

  • Its plumage is darker than Phaps chalcoptera, nor is there any white about it except on the crown of the head, the secondary wing feathers being of a bronze colour, without any shade of blue and green, so prominent in the first described of these birds.

    Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832

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