Definition of Genus testudo

1. Noun. Type genus of the Testudinidae.

Exact synonyms: Testudo
Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Family Testudinidae, Testudinidae
Member holonyms: European Tortoise, Testudo Graeca, Giant Tortoise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Testudo

genus Taxus
genus Tectaria
genus Tectona
genus Telanthera
genus Tellima
genus Telopea
genus Templetonia
genus Tenrec
genus Tephrosia
genus Terebella
genus Teredo
genus Termes
genus Terrapene
genus Terrietia
genus Testudo
genus Tethus
genus Tetraclinis
genus Tetragonia
genus Tetragonurus
genus Tetrahymena
genus Tetraneuris
genus Tetrao
genus Tetrapturus
genus Teucrium
genus Thalarctos
genus Thalictrum
genus Thamnophilus
genus Thamnophis

Literary usage of Genus testudo

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

1. Medical and Physical Researches: Or, Original Memoirs in Medicine, Surgery by Richard Harlan (1835)
"This Order, including only the Linnaean genus Testudo, is very properly divided into several ... 1st GENUS. TESTUDO. Brongniart. Characters of the Genus. ..."

2. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1829)
"This Order, including only the Linnean genus Testudo, is very properly divided into several ... 1st GENUS. TESTUDO. Brongniart. Characters of the Genus. ..."

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 (1835)
"... genus Testudo, which has been divided into five subgenera, as follow. Genus. Subgenus. Example of Species. I. Testudo, L. 1. ..."

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