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Definition of Genus oryx
1. Noun. African antelopes: oryxes.
Group relationships: Bovidae, Family Bovidae
Member holonyms: Oryx, Pasang
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Oryx
Literary usage of Genus oryx
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)
"... which does not exist in the Furcifer. The horns are figured by Major Hamilton
Smith, in the Lin. Trans. xiii.ja/.3 . Sub-Genus ORYX. 969. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Henry Charles Howard Suffolk, Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo (1897)
"Whereas the Gemsbok and other members of the genus Oryx, together with the
Gazelles, and many of the ..."
3. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"... of which the last specimen was probably killed in 1799.1 The genus Oryx (chiefly
African, but also Arabian and Syrian) Flo. 163. — Beatrix Antelope. ..."
4. The Geologist by Samuel Joseph Mackie (1861)
"... ot of Hamilton Smith, and even more of the sub-genus Oryx- of de Blainville,
in which, following Ogilby's example, he includes the sub-genus ..."
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