Definition of Genus Oniscus

1. Noun. Type genus of the Oniscidae; woodlice that cannot roll into a ball.

Exact synonyms: Oniscus
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Oniscidae, Oniscidae
Member holonyms: Sow Bug

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Oniscus

genus Oenanthe
genus Oenothera
genus Oestrus
genus Okapia
genus Olea
genus Oleandra
genus Olearia
genus Olfersia
genus Oligoplites
genus Oligoporus
genus Ommastrephes
genus Omphalotus
genus Onchorynchus
genus Oncidium
genus Ondatra
genus Oniscus (current term)
genus Onobrychis
genus Onoclea
genus Ononis
genus Onopordon
genus Onopordum
genus Onosmodium
genus Onychium
genus Onychogalea
genus Onychomys
genus Opheodrys
genus Ophiodon
genus Ophioglossum
genus Ophiophagus
genus Ophisaurus

Literary usage of Genus Oniscus

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

1. The Copepodologist's Cabinet: A Biographical and Bibliographical History by David M. Damkaer (2002)
"... »igure 8 represents an insect O* the genus Oniscus of Linnaeus: its body has nearly the form, the consistency, and the color of a wood-louse, ..."

2. A Monograph on the Isopods of North America by Harriet Richardson Searle, Harriet Richardson (1905)
"... at an altitude of 2800 feet. Type.— Cat. No. 23912, USNM 1O6. Genus ONISCUS Linnaeus." Body broad, depressed, very little or ..."

3. The Natural History of Ireland by William Thompson, James R. Garrett, George Dickie (1856)
"Genus ONISCUS. O. asellus, Linn. " Common among rotting timber." Templeton MSS. South of Ireland, JV Thompson. Nov., 1847. Mr. Darragh tells me is very ..."

4. Tracts and Observations in Natural History and Physiology by Robert Townson (1799)
"But it should by no means be thought that this form is characteristic and exclusively so, of the genus Oniscus. All the species of Julus I am acquainted ..."

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