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Definition of Genus dendrolagus
1. Noun. Tree wallabies.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Macropodidae, Macropodidae
Member holonyms: Tree Kangaroo, Tree Wallaby
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Dendrolagus
Literary usage of Genus dendrolagus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"These are, however, represented in the next genus Dendrolagus, and occur also in
Petrogale. The limbs are not so disproportionate as in Macropus, ..."
2. The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late Alfred Henry Garrod by Alfred Henry Garrod, William Alexander Forbes (1881)
"Further comparison made it clear that it was intimately related to the genus
Dendrolagus, and also to the species described in ..."
3. Australasia by Alfred Russel Wallace, Augustus Henry Keane (1888)
"All the rest are marsupials, the most remarkable being the tree- kangaroos forming
the genus Dendrolagus, while some of those which are terrestrial are yet ..."
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