Definition of Blarina brevicauda

1. Noun. North American shrew with tail less than half its body length.

Exact synonyms: Short-tailed Shrew
Generic synonyms: Shrew, Shrewmouse
Group relationships: Blarina, Genus Blarina

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blarina Brevicauda

Blake
Blalock-Hanlon operation
Blalock-Taussig shunt
Blalock shunt
Blanch
Blanche
Blanchotian
Blandfordia
Blandin's gland
Blankley
Blankshire
Blanquism
Blantyre
Blarina
Blarina brevicauda (current term)
Blarney Stone
Blase
Blasius
Blasius' duct
Blastocladia
Blastocladiales
Blastoconidium
Blastodiaceae
Blastomyces dermatitidis
Blatin's syndrome
Blatta
Blatta orientalis
Blattaria
Blattella

Literary usage of Blarina brevicauda

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

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"For instance, Blarina brevicauda, is the common short-tailed shrew of the northeastern States. In the Southern States it merges into a smaller subspecies ..."

2. Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio by Geological Survey of Ohio (1882)
"Blarina brevicauda, Baird, Mam. NA, 1857, 42. 1877. Blarina (subg. Blarina) brevicauda, Coues, Precursory Notes on American Insectivorous Mammals. ..."

3. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1910)
"... from the District of Columbia, but in external measurements it is somewhat smaller than those specimens. Blarina brevicauda carolinensis (Bachman). ..."

4. The Barnacles (Cirripedia) Contained in the Collections of the U.S. National by Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1907)
"Well-maili' skin in gond condition; skull perfect. Blarina angusticeps Haird. Mammal« <>f North America, [>. 47, Iso7. =Blarina brevicauda (Say). ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"For instance, Blarina brevicauda, is the common short-tailed shrew of the northeastern States. In the Southern States it merges into a smaller subspecies ..."

6. Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio by Geological Survey of Ohio (1882)
"Blarina brevicauda, Baird, Mam. NA, 1857, 42. 1877. Blarina (subg. Blarina) brevicauda, Coues, Precursory Notes on American Insectivorous Mammals. ..."

7. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1910)
"... from the District of Columbia, but in external measurements it is somewhat smaller than those specimens. Blarina brevicauda carolinensis (Bachman). ..."

8. The Barnacles (Cirripedia) Contained in the Collections of the U.S. National by Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1907)
"Well-maili' skin in gond condition; skull perfect. Blarina angusticeps Haird. Mammal« <>f North America, [>. 47, Iso7. =Blarina brevicauda (Say). ..."

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