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Definition of Genus agama
1. Noun. Type genus of the Agamidae.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Agama
Literary usage of Genus agama
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1860)
"The genus agama (Daudin) has a flat triangular head, neck, and sometimes the ears
spiny, body covered with small imbricated scales, no dorsal crest, ..."
2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The genus agama (Dandin) has a flat triangular head, neck, and sometimes the ears
spiny, body covered with small imbricated scales, no dorsal crest, ..."
3. Madagascar: An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Island and Its by Samuel Pasfield Oliver (1886)
"... which are mostly Oriental, and are represented in Africa by the single genus
Agama, have here three peculiar genera, ..."
4. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1901)
"The majority live in Australia and in the Indian and Malay countries, comparatively
few in Africa, chiefly the genus Agama. ..."
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