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Definition of Genus antilocapra
1. Noun. Type and sole genus of the Antilocapridae comprising one species.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Antilocapridae, Family Antilocapridae
Member holonyms: American Antelope, Antilocapra Americana, Prongbuck, Pronghorn, Pronghorn Antelope
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Antilocapra
Literary usage of Genus antilocapra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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 (1827)
"Mr. Ord very properly regarded the animal he described as an intermediate species,
and upon this opinion formed his genus Antilocapra, a denomination which ..."
2. Fifteen Years' Sport and Life in the Hunting Grounds of Western America and by William Adolph Baillie-Grohman (1900)
"665) on the genus Antilocapra he writes as follows: " The generic name of Mazama,
as established by Rafinesque, II., ..."