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Definition of Genus bitis
1. Noun. A genus of Viperidae.
Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Family Viperidae, Viperidae
Member holonyms: Bitis Arietans, Puff Adder, Bitis Gabonica, Gaboon Viper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Bitis
Literary usage of Genus bitis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"... of Switzerland has been referred by M. R brune to the existing genus
Bitis (Echidna} ; having been orig described under the name of Coluber Kargt. ..."
2. Liberia by Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf (1906)
"Of the Viper group of poisonous snakes there are two puff-adders of the genus
Bitis—B. gabonica and B. nasicornis, both very gaudily ..."
3. A Manual of Palæontology, for the Use of Students: For the Use of Students by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"A snake from the Upper Miocene of Switzerland has been referred by M. Roche-
brune to the existing genus Bitis (Echidna); having been originally described ..."
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