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Definition of Hyemoschus
1. Noun. Water chevrotains.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Tragulidae, Tragulidae
Member holonyms: Hyemoschus Aquaticus, Water Chevrotain, Water Deer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyemoschus
Literary usage of Hyemoschus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Ruminant Mammalia: (Pecora, Linnæus) in the British Museum by John Edward Gray (1872)
"The stomach is tripartite. Africa. 1. Hyemoschus. Lower lip and chin rather ...
BM Hyemoschus aquaticus, Gray, Cat. ..."
2. Catalogue of the Bones of Mammalia in the Collection of the British Museum by Edward Gerrard (1862)
"The specimen figured in Cat. Mamm. Brit. Mus. pt. iii. 1852. *b. Bones of the body.
e. Skeleton. From the Zoological Society's Collection. Hyemoschus. ..."
3. Bibliographia Zoologiæ Et Geologiæ: A General Catalogue of All Books, Tracts by Louis Agassiz (1853)
"... Ogilby), and the new genus Hyemoschus.—Ann. and Mag. NH XVI. p. 350. 116.
Note on the Wild Cattle of Chillingham Park—Ann. of Nat. Hist. II. p. 284. ..."
4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1845)
"... in the base of the skull: from these characters and the pig-like habit of the
animal, I propose to form for it a genus under the name of Hyemoschus. ..."
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