Definition of Ailurus

1. Noun. Lesser pandas.

Exact synonyms: Genus Ailurus
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Procyonidae, Procyonidae
Member holonyms: Ailurus Fulgens, Bear Cat, Cat Bear, Lesser Panda, Panda, Red Panda

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ailurus

Aigburth
Aighton
Aigina
Aigio
Aiken
Aikens
Aikin
Aikins
Ailanthus altissima
Aileen
Ailey
Ailill mac Máta
Ailuropoda
Ailuropoda melanoleuca
Ailuropodidae
Ailurus
Ailurus fulgens
Aimee
Aimee Semple McPherson
Ain
Ainsdale
Ainsworth
Aintree
Ainu
Air Chief Marshal
Air Combat Command
Air Commodore
Air Corps
Air Force
Air Force ISR

Literary usage of Ailurus

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

1. Catalogue of Carnivorous, Pachydermatous, and Edentate Mammalia in the by John Edward Gray (1869)
"161; Fischer, Syn. Mamm. p. 157; Gray, Cat. Mamm. t. 7 (skull imperfect). ailurus ochraceus, Hodgson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, t. 52,53 (skull). BM p. ..."

2. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"HABITAT.—Eastern Himalayas and Eastern Thibet. ailurus ... and almost ruminant molar of ailurus ; tongue smooth; pupil round; feet enveloped in woolly socks ..."

3. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"Supp. VI, xxxii. (The Raccoon Crab-eater.) A uniform light ash-brown; the rings on the tail less distinct. From South America. ailurus, Fred. Cuv. ..."

4. A Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company by Thomas Horsfield, East India Company Museum (1851)
"ailurus fulgens, Hardw., Trans. Linn. Soc. XV. p. 161, with illustrations of the ... Calc. Journ. NH IV. 287. Schinz, Syn. Mamm. I. 314. ailurus ochraceus ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... Timotheus ailurus of Alexandria and Peter Fullo of Antioch, to return to their sees. At the same time he issued a religious edict ..."

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