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Definition of Genus Didelphis
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Didelphidae.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Didelphidae, Family Didelphidae
Member holonyms: Crab-eating Opossum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Didelphis
Literary usage of Genus Didelphis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are by David Booth (1836)
"Each of the creatures, to which those bones belonged, must have been at least
the size of a large Ox. The genus DIDELPHIS includes a very peculiar tribe of ..."
2. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1840)
"should not, however, have presumed to have published a statement of its affinity
to, much less its identity with the genus Didelphis, without testing the ..."
3. Catalog, 1903by Indiana State Library, William Elmer Henry by Indiana State Library, William Elmer Henry (1904)
"... Preliminary study of the North American opossums of the genus Didelphis. pi.
22-25. (Sec Amer. museum of nat. hist., NY city. Bull. v. 14, p. 149-188. ..."
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