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Definition of Caenolestes
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Caenolestidae.
Exact synonyms: Genus Caenolestes
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Caenolestidae, Family Caenolestidae
Member holonyms: Opossum Rat
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Caenolestidae, Family Caenolestidae
Member holonyms: Opossum Rat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caenolestes
Literary usage of Caenolestes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1897)
"... with notes on the Dentition of the Allied Genera. Extr. Proceeds. Zool. Soc.
London, 1892. On caenolestes, a still Existing Survivor of the ..."
2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"84); the only exception indeed to this statement is the occurrence of the genus
caenolestes in South Flo g*.—Bones of right America. ..."
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