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Definition of Brevoortia
1. Noun. Menhaden.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Clupeidae, Family Clupeidae
Member holonyms: Brevoortia Tyrannis, Menhaden
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brevoortia
Literary usage of Brevoortia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1880)
"The geographical range of Brevoortia tyrannus varies from year to year. For 1877
it was, so far as it is possible to define it in words, as follows : The ..."
2. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1880)
"The geographical range of Brevoortia tyrannus varies from year to year. For 1877
it was, so far as it is possible to define it in words, as follows : The ..."
3. Studies from the Department of Anatomy by Dept. of Anatomy, Cornell University, Medical College (1910)
"1 Brevoortia. Two follicles with their epithelial cells drawn out into ...
3 Brevoortia. An isolated follicle, F, in the most anterior portion of the ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1892)
"Out of compliment to the little daughter of the stage-driver who first showed
bim the plant, he called it Brevoortia Ida Maia. When Dr. Gray reviewed Wood's ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1878)
"This name is preoccupied by the Pomolo- bus pseudoharengus, and should never be
applied to Brevoortia. The presence of a parasitic crustacean ..."
6. The Fishes of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1896)
"(Dedicated to James Carson Brevoort, of Brooklyn, a gentleman long interested in
the study of fishes.) 705. Brevoortia ..."
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