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Definition of Genus Oryctolagus
1. Noun. Old World rabbits.
Exact synonyms: Oryctolagus
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Leporidae, Leporidae
Member holonyms: European Rabbit, Old World Rabbit, Oryctolagus Cuniculus
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Leporidae, Leporidae
Member holonyms: European Rabbit, Old World Rabbit, Oryctolagus Cuniculus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Oryctolagus
Literary usage of Genus Oryctolagus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the European Fauna by Robert Francis Scharff (1899)
"The genus Lepus is probably not of Lusitanian origin, but the sub-genus Oryctolagus—to
which our common Rabbit belongs—has no doubt had its original home in ..."
2. British Mammals: An Attempt to Describe and Illustrate the Mammalian Fauna by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1903)
"THE COMMON RABBIT This creature is perhaps the only type of the genus Oryctolagus
which, although connected by intermediate forms, differs in the following ..."
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