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Definition of Genus Caenolestes
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Caenolestidae.
Exact synonyms: 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 Genus Caenolestes
Literary usage of Genus Caenolestes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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. ..."