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Definition of Eumetopias
1. Noun. Sea lions.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Otariidae, Otariidae
Member holonyms: Eumetopias Jubatus, Steller Sea Lion, Steller's Sea Lion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eumetopias
Literary usage of Eumetopias
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"Our black sea lion (Zalophus) is tougher than the larger kind (Eumetopias), and
is just the creature for showmen." 'The teeth of the fur seal are not, ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"As the representatives of Otaria and Eumetopias are several times larger, in
respect to bulk, than any of the representatives of either Callorhinus or ..."
3. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1872)
"We are acquainted, however, with only two genera, one of which (Otaria jubata)
inhabits the coast of South America, and the other (Eumetopias Stelleri), ..."
4. Miscellaneous Publications by Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1880)
"Eumetopias differs from Otaria, as restricted by Gill, in having one pair less
... In Eumetopias the depth of the skull at the anterior border of the orbits ..."
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