Lexic.us

Definition of Genus brevoortia

1. Noun. Menhaden.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Brevoortia

Literary usage of Genus brevoortia

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

1. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1899)
"On the proper specific name of the anten- genus brevoortia. (In : Smithsonian Institution Miscellaneous Collections, v. 19'. Washington, 1880. ..."

2. Elementary Textbook of Economic Zoology and Entomology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Rennie Wilbur Doane (1915)
"Although the menhaden (genus Brevoortia) are but little valued for food, they are of great commercial importance on account of the oil that is extracted ..."

3. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"It is caught incidentally with menhaden about Beaufort and is utilized at the fertilizer factories. The local name is "hairy-back". Genus BREVOORTIA Gill. ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1880)
"... elsewhere demonstrated, to adopt the specific name tyrannus. The genus Brevoortia, of which this species is the type, was established by Gill, in 1861. ..."

5. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1880)
"... elsewhere demonstrated, to adopt the specific name tyrannus. The genus Brevoortia, of which this species is the type, was established by Gill, in 1861. ..."

6. A Memorial of George Brown Goode, Together with a Selection of His Papers on by Samuel Pierpont Langley, George Brown Goode, Randolph Iltyd Geare, United States National Museum (1901)
"A Revision of the American Species of the genus brevoortia, with a description of a New Species from the Gulf of Mexico. Proceedings of the US National ..."

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