Lexicographical Neighbors of Emydes
Literary usage of Emydes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outlines of Oryctology: An Introduction to the Study of Fossil Organic by James Parkinson (1830)
"There appear, besides these, to be the remains of two species of fresh-water
tortoises, emydes: and no fossil remains of sea-tortoises have been discovered ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1842)
"The third, fourth, fifth and sixth vertebral plates are of equal breadth as in
emydes ; not alternately broad and narrow as in the Testudines : they are ..."
3. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1830)
"It does not cover the temple behind until just opposite the anterior edge of the
tympanum, as is usual in the common emydes. But the parietal does not unite ..."
4. Magazine of Zoology and Botany by Sir William Jardine, Prideaux John Selby, George Johnston (1837)
"The other emydes of the south-eastern portion of Asia are E. tectum; E. megacephala,
so characteristic in its heavy or unwieldy form ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1892)
"According to his view not only the name emydes ought to be used, as originally
introduced by Brogniart in 1805 (Emys Durn. ..."
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