Definition of Genus Vipera

1. Noun. Type genus of the Viperidae.

Exact synonyms: Vipera
Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Family Viperidae, Viperidae
Member holonyms: Adder, Common Viper, Vipera Berus, Asp, Asp Viper, Vipera Aspis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Vipera

genus Verticillium
genus Vesicaria
genus Vespa
genus Vespertilio
genus Vespula
genus Vibrio
genus Viburnum
genus Vicia
genus Vicugna
genus Vidua
genus Vigna
genus Viminaria
genus Vinca
genus Vincetoxicum
genus Viola
genus Vipera (current term)
genus Vireo
genus Virgilia
genus Viscum
genus Vitis
genus Vittaria
genus Viverra
genus Viverricula
genus Volvaria
genus Volvariella
genus Volvox
genus Vorticella
genus Vulpes
genus Vultur
genus Weigela

Literary usage of Genus Vipera

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

1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1858)
"Duméril and Bibron are evidently in error in placing this animal in the genus Vipera. In Vipera the nostrils are lateral, in Echidna latero- superior. ..."

2. The Genera of Fishes ...: A Contribution to the Stability of Scientific by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1917)
"As it is a fish, it cannot belong to the genus VIPERA L. VIPERA MARINA is apparently merely a vernacular name, sea-viper or viper-fish being intended. ..."

3. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1831)
"... of which we shall speak farther on, compose his genus VIPERA. Fitzinger portions out our first three divisions into three genera, which he names VIPERA, ..."

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