Grus

See also: grus, Gruß, and grús

Translingual

Grus grus

Etymology

From Latin grūs (“crane”)

Proper noun

Grus f

A taxonomic genus within the family Gruidae – the cranes.

Hypernyms

(genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Deuterostomia - infrakingdom; Chordata - phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Reptilia - class; Aves - subclass; Neognathae - infraclass; Neoaves - superorder; Gruiformes - order; Gruidae - family; Gruinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

(genus): Grus grus - type species; Grus americana, Grus antigone, Grus canadensis, Grus carunculata, Grus japonensis, Grus leucogeranus, Grus monacha, Grus nigricollis, Grus paradisea, †Grus primigenia, Grus rubicunda, Grus vipio - other species

References

Grus (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Grus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Grus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, →ISBN

English

Etymology

Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. From Latin grūs (“a crane (bird)”), originally from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely”).

Proper noun

Grus

(astronomy) A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a crane. It contains the star Alnair and lies south of the constellation Piscis Austrinis.

Derived terms

Gruis

Translations

spring constellation of the southern sky

Czech: Jeřáb (cs) m
Finnish: Kurki (fi)
French: Grue (fr) f
Galician: Grou (gl)
German: Kranich (de) m
Icelandic: Hegrinn (is) m
Japanese: 鶴座 (ja) (つるざ, Tsuruza)

Lithuanian: Gervė f
Malay: Burung Keria
Polish: Żuraw (pl) m
Russian: Жура́вль (ru) m (Žurávlʹ)
Spanish: Grus
Volapük: sigrud (vo)

Anagrams

rugs

Spanish

Proper noun

Grus ?

(astronomy) Grus (spring constellation of the southern sky)

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