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Definition of Genus Crocodilus
1. Noun. Type genus of the Crocodylidae.
Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Crocodylidae, Family Crocodylidae
Member holonyms: Crocodile
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Crocodilus
Literary usage of Genus Crocodilus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Descriptive Catalogue of the Fossil Organic Remains of Reptilia and Pisces by Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of England (1854)
"genus Crocodilus.. A coloured plaster cast of a large portion of the skull of
the extinct Sheppey Crocodile (Crocodile ..."
2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1921)
"The actual number observable, seventeen, is greater than in any known species of
the genus Crocodilus, also the relative size and distribution of the teeth ..."
3. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1915)
"... and the cosmopolitan tropical genus Crocodilus are primitive in one or another
respect. The gavials also had a wider and more northerly distribution ..."
4. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"The other nine species of the genus Crocodilus live in various parts of the
world — C. intermedius, the Orinoco crocodile, in Venezuela ; C. rhombifer, ..."
5. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1891)
"... no species of the genus Crocodilus occurs in the Eocene, the so-called C.
Spenceri being referable to ..."
6. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1899)
"Subsequent writers have admitted these highly natural subdivisions ; but there
has been a constant tendency to raise their rank. The genus Crocodilus has ..."
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