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Definition of Genus Engraulis
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Engraulidae.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Member holonyms: Engraulis Encrasicholus, Mediterranean Anchovy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Engraulis
Literary usage of Genus Engraulis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"They are small in size and weak in muscle, found in all warm seas, 'and making
a large part of the food of the larger fish. The genus Engraulis includes the ..."
2. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"genus Engraulis CUVIER This genus contains those spindle-shaped anchovies of the
north and south Temperate zones which have the body little compressed, ..."
3. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"Reduced. common existing Herring is shown in fig. 933. The Lebanon Chalk has also
yielded a species of the living genus Engraulis ; ina the extinct genera ..."
4. Adulterations Detected; Or, Plain Instructions for the Discovery of Frauds by Arthur Hill Hassall (1857)
"The fins have the same disposition as the true anchovy, and the same number of
rays ; and it is possible that this fish may be one of the genus Engraulis, ..."
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