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Definition of Genus rhinoceros
1. Noun. Type genus of the Rhinocerotidae.
Group relationships: Family Rhinocerotidae, Rhinoceros Family, Rhinocerotidae
Member holonyms: Indian Rhinoceros, Rhinoceros Unicornis, Rhinoceros Antiquitatis, Woolly Rhinoceros
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Rhinoceros
Literary usage of Genus rhinoceros
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1801)
"The concluding remarks on the genus rhinoceros we shall transcribe. ' Upon the
whole, there can be little doubt that there are, in reali- ' ty, ..."
2. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"genus rhinoceros. " The skin divided into shields by well-marked folds, lumbar
and neck-folds well developed ; horn single, anterior; part of occipital bone ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... in the typical genus Rhinoceros, while others recognize quite a number of
sub-families and still more genera. Here the family is divided into two groups ..."
4. Anecdotal and descriptive natural history by A. Romer (1872)
"The genus Rhinoceros contains six living specimens, as far as naturalists are
able to determine, and nine fossil species have been recorded, the relics of ..."
5. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-78 by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1874)
"In some respects it has decided relations to the genus rhinoceros. ... The molar
teeth of this animal resemble those of the genus rhinoceros, ..."
6. Annual Record of Science and Industry by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1875)
"In some respects it has decided relations to the genus rhinoceros. ... The molar
teeth of this animal resemble those of the genus rhinoceros, ..."
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