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Definition of Palaemon
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Palaemonidae; widely distributed genus.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Palaemonidae, Palaemonidae
Member holonyms: Prawn, Long-clawed Prawn, Palaemon Australis, River Prawn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palaemon
Literary usage of Palaemon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Age of Fable; Or, Beauties of Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch, John Loughran Scott (1898)
"palaemon was usually represented riding on a dolphin. The Isthmian games were
celebrated in his honor. ..."
2. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, Henry Jackson (1886)
"there is no valid reason why the palaemon of the grammarians should not be ...
20) speak of palaemon as a second Aristarchus, but says merely that he ..."
3. Lectures and Essays by Henry Nettleship (1895)
"I propose to take the last point first, and to argue that there is no valid reason
why the palaemon of the grammarians should not be identified with the ..."
4. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William George Smith (1849)
"23), and he is also mentioned by Juvenal on two occasions (vi.451, vii.'JSl —219).
From the scholiast on Juvenal (vi. 451 ) we lea n that palaemon was the ..."
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