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Definition of Genus Mus
1. Noun. Type genus of the Muridae: common house mice; the tips of the upper incisors have a square notch.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Muridae, Muridae
Member holonyms: House Mouse, Mus Musculus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Mus
Literary usage of Genus Mus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"genus Mus. " Muzzle pointed; eyes prominent; ears rather large, sub-naked ; fur
soft (rarely mixed with spines); pollex rudimentary; claws short; ..."
2. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"RAT, amongst naturalists, the genus Mus. i,с coffee-rat is an insular variety of
the Ins ... The genus Mus, the ruts, has sen largely described by ..."
3. The Annals of Philosophy by Richard Phillips, E W Brayley (1814)
"The original genus mus has been subdivided into several genera, ... Of the
restricted genus, mus, he enumerated six species, viz : the common mouse ..."
4. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1840)
"THE most numerous genus of this family is the genus Mus, of which I am acquainted
with ... Next to the genus Mus, with reference to the number of species, ..."
5. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"Of the many species of the genus Mus only three or four have developed the ability
to adapt themselves to such a variety of conditions as to become ..."
6. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"The genus Mus, including the Eats and Mice in the limited sense of the word, ...
In the Xew World there are no species of the restricted genus Mus. ..."
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