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Definition of Genus Testudo
1. Noun. Type genus of the Testudinidae.
Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Family Testudinidae, Testudinidae
Member holonyms: European Tortoise, Testudo Graeca, Giant Tortoise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Testudo
Literary usage of Genus Testudo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical and Physical Researches: Or, Original Memoirs in Medicine, Surgery by Richard Harlan (1835)
"This Order, including only the Linnaean genus Testudo, is very properly divided
into several ... 1st GENUS. TESTUDO. Brongniart. Characters of the Genus. ..."
2. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1829)
"This Order, including only the Linnean genus Testudo, is very properly divided
into several ... 1st GENUS. TESTUDO. Brongniart. Characters of the Genus. ..."
3. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1835)
"... genus Testudo, which has been divided into five subgenera, as follow. Genus.
Subgenus. Example of Species. I. Testudo, L. 1. ..."
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