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Definition of Genus oniscus

1. Noun. Type genus of the Oniscidae; woodlice that cannot roll into a ball.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Oniscus

Literary usage of Genus oniscus

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

1. The Copepodologist's Cabinet: A Biographical and Bibliographical History by David M. Damkaer (2002)
"... »igure 8 represents an insect O* the genus Oniscus of Linnaeus: its body has nearly the form, the consistency, and the color of a wood-louse, ..."

2. A Monograph on the Isopods of North America by Harriet Richardson Searle, Harriet Richardson (1905)
"... at an altitude of 2800 feet. Type.— Cat. No. 23912, USNM 1O6. Genus ONISCUS Linnaeus." Body broad, depressed, very little or ..."

3. The Natural History of Ireland by William Thompson, James R. Garrett, George Dickie (1856)
"Genus ONISCUS. O. asellus, Linn. " Common among rotting timber." Templeton MSS. South of Ireland, JV Thompson. Nov., 1847. Mr. Darragh tells me is very ..."

4. Tracts and Observations in Natural History and Physiology by Robert Townson (1799)
"But it should by no means be thought that this form is characteristic and exclusively so, of the genus Oniscus. All the species of Julus I am acquainted ..."

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