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Definition of Genus Gorilla

1. Noun. Gorillas.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Gorilla

Literary usage of Genus Gorilla

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

1. Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa, with Accounts of the by Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1868)
"... the differences in the osteology, dentition, and outward character of the gorilla to be of sufficient generic importance to create the genus gorilla. ..."

2. A Hand-book to the Primates by Henry Ogg Forbes (1897)
"genus Gorilla. Troglodytes, Geoffr., Ann. Mus., xix., p. 87 (1812). Gorilla, Is. Geoffr., CR, xxxiv., p. 84, note (1852). This genus, like the preceding, ..."

3. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1866)
"... and finally to the genus Troglodytes, Geoffroy's genus Gorilla being rejected. In conclusion, the author enumerates the chief steps necessary to ..."

4. Mammalia: Their Various Orders and Habits Popularly Illustrated by Typical by Louis Figuier, Guillaume Louis Figuier (1870)
"... certainty be admitted: this is the one whose history we have traced—the Orang-Outang. genus Gorilla.—It is but a short time since correct information ..."

5. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"Of Gorillas, genus Gorilla, there is but one species, which must apparently and rather unfortunately be called Gorilla gorilla. The misfortune is double: in ..."

6. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"... widely separated from the toes, to which they are easily opposed, and well calculated for prehension. The genus gorilla was established by Geoffroy ..."

7. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"Paris, 1852), erected for it a new genus, Gorilla, based upon such peculiarities as the great cranial ridges, the shape of the teeth, the disparity in size ..."

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