Definition of Genus bitis

1. Noun. A genus of Viperidae.

Exact synonyms: Bitis
Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Family Viperidae, Viperidae
Member holonyms: Bitis Arietans, Puff Adder, Bitis Gabonica, Gaboon Viper

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Bitis

genus Berberis
genus Bergenia
genus Beroe
genus Berteroa
genus Bertholletia
genus Bessera
genus Besseya
genus Beta
genus Bettongia
genus Betula
genus Bibos
genus Bidens
genus Bignonia
genus Biscutella
genus Bison
genus Bitis
genus Blaberus
genus Blandfordia
genus Blarina
genus Blastocladia
genus Blastomyces
genus Blatta
genus Blattella
genus Blechnum
genus Blennius
genus Blephilia
genus Bletia
genus Bletilla
genus Blighia
genus Blissus

Literary usage of Genus bitis

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

1. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"... of Switzerland has been referred by M. R brune to the existing genus Bitis (Echidna} ; having been orig described under the name of Coluber Kargt. ..."

2. Liberia by Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf (1906)
"Of the Viper group of poisonous snakes there are two puff-adders of the genus Bitis—B. gabonica and B. nasicornis, both very gaudily ..."

3. A Manual of Palæontology, for the Use of Students: For the Use of Students by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"A snake from the Upper Miocene of Switzerland has been referred by M. Roche- brune to the existing genus Bitis (Echidna); having been originally described ..."

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