Definition of Genus megaptera

1. Noun. Humpback whales.

Exact synonyms: Megaptera
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Balaenopteridae, Family Balaenopteridae
Member holonyms: Humpback, Humpback Whale, Megaptera Novaeangliae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Megaptera

genus Matricaria
genus Matteuccia
genus Matthiola
genus Maxillaria
genus Maxostoma
genus Mayaca
genus Mayetiola
genus Mazama
genus Meconopsis
genus Medicago
genus Medinilla
genus Megachile
genus Megaderma
genus Megalobatrachus
genus Megalosaurus
genus Megaptera
genus Megatherium
genus Melampodium
genus Melampsora
genus Melanerpes
genus Melanitta
genus Melanogrammus
genus Melanoplus
genus Melanotis
genus Melastoma
genus Meleagris
genus Meles
genus Melia
genus Melicocca
genus Melicoccus

Literary usage of Genus megaptera

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

1. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach by George Edwin Rines, Frederick Converse Beach (1912)
"These various genera may be distinguished by the following external characters: Humpbacks (genus Megaptera).—Form bulky and uncouth. ..."

2. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1870)
"This group is equivalent to the genus Megaptera of EC vol. i. col. 872. Genus 1. Megaptera. Type, M. longimana of EC voL i: col. 872. ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"These various genera may be distinguished by the following external characters: Humpbacks (genus Megaptera).— Form bulky and uncouth. ..."

4. Contributions to the Natural History of Alaska: Results of Investigations by Lucien McShan Turner (1886)
"... where quite a number, probably a dozen, of these creatures were observed at some distance, slowly making their way into Bering Sea. Genus MEGAPTERA. ..."

5. The Mammals of Pennsylvania and New Jersey: A Biographic, Historic and by Samuel Nicholson Rhoads (1903)
"genus megaptera Gray, Zoology Voyage Erebus and Terror, 1846, p. 16. New England Humpback Whale. Megaptera nodosa (Bonnaterre). 1 789. ..."

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