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GENUS CYGNUS

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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Cygnus mean?

• GENUS CYGNUS (noun)
The noun GENUS CYGNUS has 1 sense:

1. a genus of Anatidae

Familiarity information: GENUS CYGNUS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GENUS CYGNUS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A genus of Anatidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Cygnus; Cygnus

Hypernyms ("genus Cygnus" is a kind of...):

bird genus (a genus of birds)

Meronyms (members of "genus Cygnus"):

Cygnus olor; mute swan (soundless Eurasian swan; commonly domesticated)

Cygnus cygnus; whooper; whooper swan (common Old World swan noted for its whooping call)

Cygnus columbianus; tundra swan (swan that nests in tundra regions of the New and Old Worlds)

Cygnus buccinator; trumpeter; trumpeter swan (large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry)

black swan; Cygnus atratus (large Australian swan having black plumage and a red bill)

Holonyms ("genus Cygnus" is a member of...):

Anatidae; family Anatidae (swimming birds having heavy short-legged bodies and bills with a horny tip: swans; geese; ducks)

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