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Definition of Denisonia
1. Noun. Copperheads.
Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Elapidae, Family Elapidae
Member holonyms: Copperhead, Denisonia Superba
Lexicographical Neighbors of Denisonia
Literary usage of Denisonia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1869)
"denisonia, Krefft. Head high and quadrangular, distinct from trunk, ...
denisonia ORNATA. (Fig. 7.) The present species is a very peculiar form on account ..."
2. Records of the Australian Museum by Australian Museum (1896)
"The most noticeable difference between our specimen of denisonia melanura and
those previously described, is to be found in the circumstance that it ..."
3. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"... denisonia, and Vermi- cella, are Australian, the first two ranging to the
Moluccas and New Guinea; ..."