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Definition of Genus phrynosoma
1. Noun. Horned lizards.
Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Family Iguania, Family Iguanidae, Iguania, Iguanidae
Member holonyms: Horned Lizard, Horned Toad, Horny Frog
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Phrynosoma
Literary usage of Genus phrynosoma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah by Howard Stansbury, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Charles Frédéric Girard, Samuel Stehman Haldeman, John Torrey, James Hall (1853)
"... MONOGRAPHIC ESSAY ON THE genus phrynosoma. (HORNED FROGS.) BY CHARLES GIRARD.
The numerous specimens of nearly all the known species of this genus which ..."
2. Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive by United States Congress. Senate (1851)
"If we look now more closely at the zoological peculiarities proper to the genus
Phrynosoma we will see that the vertex is a prominent feature of the head, ..."
3. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"... LIZARDS genus phrynosoma A Genus of Lizards that are Most Commonly Known as
the Horned "Toads" FROM all the other genera of the North American Lizards, ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"... the taxonomic needs of this paper may be served by reference to Gentry's review
of the genus Phrynosoma. This cunning little Iguanid is harmless, ..."
5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1886)
"... Alan F. Description of a New Species of the Genus Cyano- corax 90 A Review of
the genus phrynosoma 138 Hall, Edward A. and JZA McCaughan. ..."
6. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"The scales on the dorsal surface of the body terminate in sharp, spine-like points.
The horned " toads " (genus Phrynosoma, Fig. ..."
7. The Natural History of Secession by Thomas Shepard Goodwin (1865)
"It inhabits pine-forests, runs to the tops of the tallest trees, and feeds upon
insects. The genus phrynosoma — Horned Toads — has the ..."
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