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Definition of Genus elephas
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Elephantidae.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Elephantidae, Family Elephantidae
Member holonyms: Elephas Maximus, Indian Elephant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Elephas
Literary usage of Genus elephas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fossil Elephantoids: from the Hominid-Bearing Awash Group, Middle Awash by Jon Kalb (2007)
"Genus ELEPHAS Linnaeus 1758 The first fossil elephants known to have been recovered
from eastern Africa are those of Elephas collected in 1902 in the lower ..."
2. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"... provinces alone in three years prior to 1848, and between 1851 and 1856, 2000
were killed in the southern provinces. genus elephas—THE ELEPHANT. ..."
3. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1828)
"The dismemberment of the genus Elephas, for the purpose of establishing a new one
... This novelty in the division of the genus Elephas will probably not be ..."
4. The Edinburgh Journal of Science by Sir David Brewster (1828)
"The dismemberment of the genus Elephas, for the purpose of establishing a new one
... This novelty in the division of the genus Elephas will probably not be ..."
5. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"... Hills in Northern India by Captain Cautley anl Dr. Falconer, were the remains
of several specie of the genus Elephas and other ..."
6. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1859)
"The author insisted, also, on the separation of the genus Elephas into the three
sub-genera above indicated, and these again into the several species ..."
7. Transactions by Thomas Southwell, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (1879)
"The genus Elephas is separated from the genus Mastodon for the reasons assigned
above, as well as by the absence of an isomerous ridge formula to the three ..."
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