Definition of Genus Didelphis

1. Noun. Type genus of the family Didelphidae.

Exact synonyms: Didelphis
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Didelphidae, Family Didelphidae
Member holonyms: Crab-eating Opossum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Didelphis

genus Dialeurodes
genus Dianthus
genus Diapensia
genus Diapheromera
genus Dicamptodon
genus Dicentra
genus Diceros
genus Dichondra
genus Dicranopteris
genus Dicranum
genus Dicrostonyx
genus Dictamnus
genus Dictostylium
genus Dictyophera
genus Didelphis (current term)
genus Dieffenbachia
genus Diervilla
genus Difflugia
genus Digitalis
genus Digitaria
genus Dillenia
genus Dimetrodon
genus Dimocarpus
genus Dimorphotheca
genus Dinornis
genus Diodon
genus Diomedea
genus Dionaea
genus Dioon

Literary usage of Genus Didelphis

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

1. An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are by David Booth (1836)
"Each of the creatures, to which those bones belonged, must have been at least the size of a large Ox. The genus DIDELPHIS includes a very peculiar tribe of ..."

2. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1840)
"should not, however, have presumed to have published a statement of its affinity to, much less its identity with the genus Didelphis, without testing the ..."

3. Catalog, 1903by Indiana State Library, William Elmer Henry by Indiana State Library, William Elmer Henry (1904)
"... Preliminary study of the North American opossums of the genus Didelphis. pi. 22-25. (Sec Amer. museum of nat. hist., NY city. Bull. v. 14, p. 149-188. ..."

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