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Definition of Genus Blarina
1. Noun. Shrews.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Soricidae, Soricidae
Member holonyms: Blarina Brevicauda, Short-tailed Shrew
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Blarina
Literary usage of Genus Blarina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"It is a singular fact in the history of the genus Blarina that a representative
of both of its sections was made known by Say in 1823, from the same ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1896)
"Miller, Jr. In regard to the short tailed Shrews of the genus Blarina, Dr.
Mer- riam states that up to the present time 8 valid species have been described ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Other red-toothed shrews belonging to the allied genus Blarina, distinguished
from Sorex by their dentition and by the remarkable ..."
4. The Mammals of Pennsylvania and New Jersey: A Biographic, Historic and by Samuel Nicholson Rhoads (1903)
"It belongs to the genus Blarina, or short-tailed shrews, distinguished from the
typical shrew of the genus Sorex by the abbreviated tail, and by slight ..."
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