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Definition of Dasyures
1. dasyure [n] - See also: dasyure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dasyures
Literary usage of Dasyures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mammalia: Their Various Orders and Habits Popularly Illustrated by Typical by Louis Figuier (1870)
"... dasyures properly so called (Fig. 10), remind one of the fig. 9. ... the dasyures
make great havoc in poultry-yards. The Marsupials of the genus ..."
2. The Illustrated Natural History by John George Wood (1865)
"OF the animals which have been congregated into the genus dasyures, ... In colour
the dasyures re extremely variable, so much so indeed, that it is hardly ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"If we assign to the ancestors of the dasyures characters which would allow them
to constitute the Marsupial prototype, they would no longer be ..."
4. Wood's Animal Kingdom: Illustrated by John George Wood (1870)
"OP the animals which have been congregated into the genus dasyures, ... In colour
the dasyures are extremely variable, so much so indeed, that it is hardly ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"Many of the dasyures are strong, fierce, cut-like beasts of prey, ... On the
continent of Australia several very cat-like or civet-like dasyures occur, ..."
6. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1894)
"In Tasmania two peculiar forms of dasyures occur, which are not met with ...
Altogether tho dasyures number some twenty species in Australia and Tasmania. ..."
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