Spathura

Translingual

Etymology

From Ancient Greek [Term?] "blade" + "tail".

Proper noun

Spathura f

1. (obsolete) A taxonomic genus within the family Trochilidae – hummingbirds with peculiar tail-feathers expanding into a spatula shape at the end, and leg-muffs, now genera Ocreatus and Loddigesia; called racket-tails.

See also

• Steganurus

References

• “Spathura”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “Spathura”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• Spathura at Index to Organism Names