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Definition of Genus erinaceus
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Erinaceidae: hedgehogs.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Erinaceidae, Family Erinaceidae
Member holonyms: Erinaceus Europaeus, Erinaceus Europeaeus, Hedgehog
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Erinaceus
Literary usage of Genus erinaceus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Hunterian Collection in the Museum of the Royal College of by Museum, Royal College of Surgeons in London (1831)
"Fig.—Buff: viii. pi. xx. Schreb : tab. 51. Habitat.—Europe, and the eastern parts
of Asia. Presented by WH Clift. INSECTIVORA. Genus ERINACEUS. Dentition. ..."
2. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1879)
"On the Indian species of the genus Erinaceus, by Prof. Dr. Anderson, with 4
plates.—On a supposed new hedgehog (Erinaceus ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... is represented only by the hedgehogs, with the one genus Erinaceus, easily
recognized by their spiny coats, and further characterized by the rudimentary ..."
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