Laroid vs Largid - What's the difference?
laroid | largid |
(zoology) Of, pertaining to, or having characteristics of the gull family, Laridae.
* 1888 , Friedrich von Hellwald, The Riverside Natural History , Volume 4,
* 1899 , The Ibis ,
In zoology terms the difference between laroid and largid
is that laroid is of, pertaining to, or having characteristics of the gull family, Laridae while largid is any member of the Largidae.As an adjective laroid
is of, pertaining to, or having characteristics of the gull family, Laridae.As a noun largid is
any member of the Largidae.laroid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)page 83,
- We now come to a small group of Laroid birds, remarkable for their curious bill, the lower mandible of which has been compared with a "short-handled pitchfork," and for their long wings, viz., the skimmers, the Rhynchopinæ, not less remarkable for their peculiar habits and their geographical distribution, parts of America, Asia, and Africa being inhabited by one species each.
page 406,
- The whole form of the skull is, indeed, essentially Laroid , and quite unlike that of the Kingfishers;