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Definition of Genus alligator
1. Noun. Type genus of the Alligatoridae.
Group relationships: Alligatoridae, Family Alligatoridae
Member holonyms: Alligator, Gator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Alligator
Literary usage of Genus alligator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1890)
"The Chinese Alligator belongs to the genus Alligator in the restricted sense ;
its nearest ally is the North-American A. mississippi- ensis, which differs ..."
2. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"The North American species are easily separated, thus: genus alligator. Head broad
and rounded at the snout. Blackish, with dull yellow markings. ..."
3. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"... of the genus Alligator; the American alligator, A. mississippiensis, inhabits
the southeastern United States; and the Chinese alligator, A. sinensis, ..."
4. The Alligator and Its Allies by Albert Moore Reese (1915)
"The snout is blunt like that of the genus Alligator. Alleged to grow to this size
by competent observers. ..."
5. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1915)
"They ranged much farther north during the Tertiary than they do now; the most
progressive modern genus, Alligator, has the most northerly range, ..."
6. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"The genus Alligator is by some naturalists of the present day divided into three
genera, to one of which the name C. (Caiman) is appropriated, ..."
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