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Definition of Chelones
1. chelone [n] - See also: chelone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chelones
Literary usage of Chelones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1842)
"The carapace is more convex than in the preceding species from Sheppey, and than
in the existing chelones, whence the specific name of the present extinct ..."
2. Descriptive Catalogue of the Fossil Organic Remains of Reptilia and Pisces by Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of England (1854)
"In this respect the Chel. longiceps resembles the existing chelones. The length
of the third costal plate, in the fragmentary example here preserved, ..."
3. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers, Alexander Ireland (1884)
"The marine chelonia—Turtles (chelones)—demand the first notice. To this group
belong the largest existing specimens of the order; some of them reach six and ..."
4. Magazine of Zoology and Botany by Sir William Jardine, Prideaux John Selby, George Johnston (1837)
"_The chelones are principally distributed in the warmer regions of the world,
... Of all countries, America produces the greatest number of the chelones ..."
5. A Companion to the United States Pharmacopoeia by Oscar Oldberg, Otto Augustus Wall (1884)
"Best given in the form of fluid extract. It is also sometimes used as an anthelmintic.
chelones ... chelones EXTRACTUM FLUIDUM. FLUID EXTRACT OF CHELONE. ..."
6. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1843)
"The fat of many species, when fresh, is used with success in lieu of butter and
oil in cookery ; and in those species which have a musky odour (chelones ..."
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