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Definition of Genus liparis
1. Noun. Genus of terrestrial and epiphytic orchids; pantropical to temperate.
Group relationships: Family Orchidaceae, Orchid Family, Orchidaceae
Member holonyms: Liparis, Twayblade, Fen Orchid, Fen Orchis, Liparis Loeselii
2. Noun. Type genus of the Liparididae: snailfishes.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Liparidae, Family Liparididae, Liparidae, Liparididae
Member holonyms: Liparis Liparis, Sea Snail, Seasnail, Snailfish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Liparis
Literary usage of Genus liparis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1864)
"For the present, however, it is retained in the genus Liparis. The increase of
our knowledge of the Greenland ..."
2. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"In the principal genus, Liparis, the ventral disk is well developed, and the
spinous dorsal obsolete. Liparis liparis is found on both shores of the North ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1874)
"... I satisfied myself that we have two species of the genus Liparis on our coast
which are identical with the two found on the northern coast of Europe. ..."
4. The Gypsy Moth, Porthetria Dispar (Linn.): A Report of the Work of by Edward Howe Forbush, Charles Henry Fernald (1896)
"In 1810, Ochsenheimer, in the third volume of his " Schmetterlinge von Europa,"
established the genus Liparis and put dispar under it; but Liparis is also ..."
5. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members (1874)
"... I satisfied myself that we have two species of the genus Liparis on our coast
which are identical with the two found on the northern coast of Europe. ..."
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