Definition of Palaemon

1. Noun. Type genus of the family Palaemonidae; widely distributed genus.

Exact synonyms: Genus Palaemon
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Palaemonidae, Palaemonidae
Member holonyms: Prawn, Long-clawed Prawn, Palaemon Australis, River Prawn

Lexicographical Neighbors of Palaemon

Paki shop
Paki shops
Pakis
Pakistan
Pakistani
Pakistani monetary unit
Pakistani rupee
Pakistanis
Pakistanphobia
Palace
Palace of Versailles
Palace of Westminster
Palade granule
Palade pathway
Palaearctic
Palaemon (current term)
Palaemon australis
Palaemonidae
Palaeodicotyledon
Palaeogene
Palaeogenic
Palaeolithic
Palaeologus
Palaeoloxodon
Palaeophytic
Palaeozoic
Palaic
Palaio Faliro
Palaio Faliron
Palamism

Literary usage of Palaemon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Age of Fable; Or, Beauties of Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, John Loughran Scott (1898)
"Palaemon was usually represented riding on a dolphin. The Isthmian games were celebrated in his honor. ..."

2. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, Henry Jackson (1886)
"there is no valid reason why the Palaemon of the grammarians should not be ... 20) speak of Palaemon as a second Aristarchus, but says merely that he ..."

3. Lectures and Essays by Henry Nettleship (1895)
"I propose to take the last point first, and to argue that there is no valid reason why the Palaemon of the grammarians should not be identified with the ..."

4. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William George Smith (1849)
"23), and he is also mentioned by Juvenal on two occasions (vi.451, vii.'JSl —219). From the scholiast on Juvenal (vi. 451 ) we lea n that Palaemon was the ..."

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