Definition of Genus mustela

1. Noun. Type genus of the family Mustelidae: minks and weasels.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Mustela

genus Mucuna
genus Mugil
genus Muhlenbergia
genus Mulloidichthys
genus Mullus
genus Muntiacus
genus Muntingia
genus Mus
genus Musa
genus Musca
genus Muscardinus
genus Muscari
genus Muscicapa
genus Muscivora
genus Musophaga
genus Mustela
genus Mustelus
genus Mutinus
genus Mutisia
genus Mya
genus Myadestes
genus Mycobacterium
genus Mycoplasma
genus Mycteria
genus Mycteroperca
genus Mylodon
genus Myocastor
genus Myopus
genus Myosotis
genus Myotis

Literary usage of Genus mustela

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

1. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"genus mustela—THE WEASELS. These are smaller animals of the true vermiform shape; the legs are .very short in comparison with the body, and the neck is very ..."

2. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1838)
"Remarks on the species of the genus Mustela. By CHARLES L. BONAPARTE, ... The genus Mustela, as may be seen at length in the work quoted, is by me divided ..."

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