pogonias

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noun In ichth.. a genus of sciænoids, having numerous barbels on the lower jaw (whence the name); the drums or drumfish, as P. chromis. See cut under drum, 11 .
noun In ornithology, same as Pogonorhynchus.

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In comparison crowned guenon (Cercopithecus pogonias EN), chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes, EN), agile mangabey (Cercocebus agilis), and gray-cheeked mangabey (Lophocebus albigena) occur only on the right bank.

Eastern Congolian swamp forests 2007
The azaleas succeeded to the anemones, the orchis and trillium followed, then the yellow gerardias and the feathery purple pogonias, and finally the growing gleam of the golden-rods along the wood-side and the red umbels of the tall eupatoriums in the meadow announced the close of summer.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various
The azaleas succeeded to the anemones, the orchis and trillium followed, then the yellow gerardias and the feathery purple pogonias, and finally the growing gleam of the golden-rods along the wood-side and the red umbels of the tall eupatoriums in the meadow announced the close of summer.

Beauty and the Beast: and Tales of Home 1872
The azaleas succeeded to the anemones, the orchis and trillium followed, then the yellow gerardias and the feathery purple pogonias, and finally the growing gleam of the golden-rods along the wood-side and the red umbels of the tall eupatoriums in the meadow announced the close of summer.

Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home Bayard Taylor 1851
Edaphosaurus pogonias Cope; Clepsy drops natalis Cope; Naosaurus claviger Cope;

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1771