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Definition of Genus Oestrus
1. Noun. Type genus of the Oestridae: sheep botflies.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Hypodermatidae, Family Oestridae, Hypodermatidae, Oestridae
Member holonyms: Oestrus Ovis, Sheep Botfly, Sheep Gadfly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Oestrus
Literary usage of Genus Oestrus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practical Study of Malaria and Other Blood Parasites by John William Watson Stephens, Samuel Rickard Christophers (1903)
"Larvae produce ox warbles (=tumours) in the ox. (c) genus Oestrus, eg, 0. Ovis.
Larvae in the respiratory passages of the sheep. ..."
2. The Entomologist's Useful Compendium: Or, An Introduction to the Knowledge by George Samouelle (1819)
"... their appearance as the places in which they are bred. In general they do not
cast their skins, but change into a pupa state. Genus. OESTRUS, Gad-fly. ..."
3. The Journal of Economic Biology by Walter Edward Collinge, A. H. Reginald Buller, George Herbert Carpenter, Robert Newstead, Arthur Everett Shipley (1906)
"... removed it from the Linnean genus Oestrus and placed it in a new genus,
Hypoderma, and the insect is now generally known as Hypoderma bovis. ..."
4. The study of medicine by John Mason Good (1829)
"... but far more frequently of other animals, and especially of the horse.
The genus oestrus is not numerous, containing in all not ..."
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