Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ornithology: The typical genus of Micropodidæ same as
Cypselus . - noun A genus of short-footed thrushes or Brachypodinæ founded by Swainson in 1831, now referred to the Timeliidæ.
- noun In ichthyology, a name of two genera of fishes, one founded by J. E. Gray, 1831, the other by Kner, 1868.
- noun In entomology, a tropical American genus of lygæid bugs erected by Spinola in 1837.
- noun A person with abnormally small, but not necessarily deformed, legs.
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Examples
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Characteristic small mammals include southern plains woodrat (Neotoma micropus), and Mexican spiny pocket mouse (Liomys irroratus).
Tamaulipan mezquital 2008
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He has two groups: the first, containing _E. micropus_ and _E. pictus_, is distinguished by the _second upper premolar simple, one-fanged, the feet club-shaped; soles tubercular_.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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-- Similar to the above, but the tips of the spines are more broadly white, and the brown bands below not so dark; the ears are somewhat larger than _micropus_, and the feet narrower and not so long.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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When it is downy, the plant forms almost the whole nest, as is the case with the flax-leaved bindweed; when smooth, it forms only the framework, destined to support a crumbling mass of micropus, as is the case with the small bindweed.
Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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But on arid ground, the Micropus erectus, or upright micropus, abounds and is a satisfactory substitute for the Filago so far as its tiny, cottony leaves and its little fluffy balls of flowers are concerned.
Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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