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Definition of Genus budorcas

1. Noun. Gnu goats.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Budorcas

Literary usage of Genus budorcas

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

1. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"genus budorcas. A heavily-built, somewhat cow-shaped animal, with curiously bent horns, which spring upwards, but soon bend laterally outward and then ..."

2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1851)
"The horns, whose peculiar twist must constitute the diagnosis of the genus BUDORCAS, appear, from the rough figures given, to have the wrinkling at the base ..."

3. The Big Game of Central and Western China: Being an Account of a Journey by Harold Frank Wallace (1913)
"... and it may be taken that this is the most specialised representative of the genus budorcas yet discovered. To quote Mr. Pocock again—and I am indebted ..."

4. Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological by Zoological Society of London Committee of Science and Correspondence, Committee of Science and Correspondence, Zoological Society of London (1850)
"The horns, whose peculiar twist must constitute the diagnosis of the genus BuDORCAS, appear, from the rough figures given, to have the wrinkling at the base ..."

5. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1850)
"The horns, whose peculiar twist must constitute the diagnosis of the genus BUDORCAS, appear, from the rough figures given, to have the wrinkling at the base ..."

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