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Definition of Genus cebus

1. Noun. Type genus of the Cebidae.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Cebus

Literary usage of Genus cebus

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

1. ... Indigenous Races of the Earth: Or, New Chapters of Ethnological Inquiry by Josiah Clark Nott, George Robins Gliddon, Louis-Ferdinand-Alfred Maury, James Aitken Meigs (1868)
"The monkeys of South America are also very instructive in this respect, especially the genus Cebus. While some zoologists distinguish as many as ten ..."

2. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1838)
"I answer, it would gain a term implying that the family contains the genus Cebus (which it does) instead of one implying that it contains the genus Simia ..."

3. Prehistoric Man: Researches Into the Origin of Civilisation in the Old and by Sir Daniel Wilson (1862)
"Agassiz, when alluding to the conflicting opinions maintained by zoologists as to the number of species into which the genus Cebus is divisible, ..."

4. Lectures on Man: His Place in Creation, and in the History of the Earth by Karl Christoph Vogt, James Hunt (1864)
"I have now before me skulls of the same age, of the genus cebus, in which the teeth ... In one genus (cebus apella) the intermaxillary is plainly separated; ..."

5. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1858)
"... he remarks on the diversity of opinions among men of science as to the genus Cebus, which some zoologists recognise as one species, others separate into ..."

6. The Origin and Growth of the Moral Instinct by Alexander Sutherland (1898)
"This genus, Cebus, always lives in troops of at least thirty, which travel in ... But if the genus Cebus marks the highest limit of the American monkeys, ..."

7. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"Typical of the family is the genus Cebus, including the " Capuchin " Monkeys, and consisting of nearly twenty species; the tail, though prehensile, ..."

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