Definition of Genus aptenodytes

1. Noun. Large penguins.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Aptenodytes

genus Aphis
genus Aphriza
genus Aphrophora
genus Aphyllanthes
genus Apios
genus Apis
genus Apium
genus Aplectrum
genus Aplodontia
genus Aplysia
genus Apocynum
genus Apodemus
genus Apogon
genus Aporocactus
genus Appendicularia
genus Aptenodytes
genus Apteryx
genus Apus
genus Aquila
genus Aquilegia
genus Ara
genus Arabidopsis
genus Arabis
genus Arachis
genus Aralia
genus Aramus
genus Aranea
genus Araneus
genus Araucaria
genus Araujia

Literary usage of Genus aptenodytes

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

1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1872)
"... in fact, it is the real beginning of the exact literature. Placing all the species in the genus Aptenodytes, the author divides them into the ..."

2. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"In the southern hemisphere there is only the single genus Aptenodytes that can be classed as antarctic ; and even that is more properly south temperate. ..."

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 (1829)
"The Genus APTENODYTES, Forster. Is still less volatile than the penguins; its small wings are furnished only with vestiges of feathers, at first sight ..."

4. The Natural History of Secession by Thomas Shepard Goodwin (1865)
"The genus aptenodytes comprises the Penguins of the cold regions of the Southern hemisphere. They have the wings very small, are incapable of flight, ..."

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