Lexic.us

Definition of Genus Mazama

1. Noun. Brockets.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Mazama

Literary usage of Genus Mazama

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fifteen Years' Sport and Life in the Hunting Grounds of Western America and by William Adolph Baillie-Grohman (1900)
"There seems to be no doubt that Rafinesque's genus Mazama should be adopted ... Were the genus Mazama less decided in its expressions, it might be taken for ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"IT has been customary of late to refer the Mountain Goat to the genus Mazama of Rafinesque^ But Mazama was based primarily on the ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... the three Old World types alluded to under the heading of the Holarctic region, arc altogether peculiar types referable to the genus Mazama (subgenus ..."

4. List of North American Land Mammals in the United States National Museum, 1911 by Gerrit Smith Miller, United States National Museum (1912)
"TYPE LOCALITY.—Northwestern Minnesota and adjoining British provinces. Genus MAZAMA Rafinesque. 1817. Mazama RAFINESQUE, American Monthly Magazine, vol. ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Including all these deer except one in the genus Mazama (of which the typical representatives are the South American ..."

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