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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of Plataleidæ, formerly conterminous with the family, now restricted to the Old World spoonbills, such as P. leucorodia, in which the intrathoracic parts of the trachea are peculiarly convoluted. Also
Platea .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type genus of the Plataleidae
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A particularly detailed steamer-duck attack on a Shoveler Anas platalea was recorded by Nuechterlein & Storer (1985a), and I here summarise the account they describe on p. 89.
Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006
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