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Definition of Genus Tamias
1. Noun. Chipmunks of eastern North America.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Sciuridae, Sciuridae
Member holonyms: Eastern Chipmunk, Ground Squirrel, Hackee, Striped Squirrel, Tamias Striatus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Tamias
Literary usage of Genus Tamias
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Viviparious Quadrupeds of North America by John James Audubon, John Bachman (1846)
"from that genus, no doubt naturalists will arrange them in the genus TAMIAS.
When this genus was first established by ILLIGER, but a single species was ..."
2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"Camel's hair" brushes are made from this animal. The genus Tamias, almost
exclusively North American in range, is included by ..."
3. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1903)
"A Review of Some of the North American Ground Squirrels of the genus Tamias.
By JA Allen. Vol. Ill, No. i, Article iv, pp. 45-116. Price, 50 cents. 25. ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... all referable to the genus Tamias. In North America ground-squirrels are
migratory, and may be abundant in a district one year, and absent the next. ..."
5. Foundations of Biology by Lorande Loss Woodruff (1922)
"This dissimilarity and similarity is expressed by placing them in a different
genus, Tamias, but in the same FAMILY, Sciuridae. ..."
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