Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of fruit-crows, giving name to the subfamily Querulinæ; the type is Q. purpurata, the piahau.
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Examples
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Pliny the Younger (61-115 A.D.), who describes the procedure in detail, the disinherited children were given the right of the _querula inoffidosi testamenti, _ by which the father was presumed to have died intestate, and his property fell in equal shares to all his children.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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haec postquam querula mecum sub lite peregit, 95
Cynthia Dead 1912
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Mos eft vetuftus apud Orientales, etiam bodie iperftes, ut in exfeqiiiiS) lamentatrices mulieres dfint, querula nimirum voce triftique ulidatu db -
Caroli a Linné equit. aur. de stella polari archiatri regii med. et botan. profess. Upsal. Acad ... 1788
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Habitat in defertis magis aujiralibus circa flnvios Ural ef Irtis, Junio frequens, querula minor. marginc] - 97.
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