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Definition of Genus sus
1. Noun. Type genus of the Suidae.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Suidae, Suidae
Member holonyms: Grunter, Hog, Pig, Squealer, Sus Scrofa, Piggy, Piglet, Shoat, Shote, Boar, Sus Scrofa, Wild Boar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Sus
Literary usage of Genus sus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"genus sus. The Incisors, | or |; the lower ones slanted; the canines large and
curved outwards and upwards ; molars tuberculate : four toes on each ..."
2. Records of the Geological Survey of India by Geological Survey of India (1878)
"Genus: Sus. Of this genus two species, S. giganteus and S. ... The teeth of the
species of the genus Sus are so like one another in form that it is ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1844)
"genus sus. When Cuvier communicated his memoir on the fossil bones of the Hog to
the French Academy in 1809, he had met with no specimens from formations ..."
4. A History of British Fossil Mammals, and Birds by Richard. Owen (1846)
"Dr. Kaup has described fossils referable to the genus Sus from the ... The oldest
fossils of the genus Sus from British strata which I have yet seen, ..."
5. Bruin; or, The grand bear hunt by Mayne Reid (1861)
"separate them from the genus Sus, and constitute for them a genus of their own.
It is hardly necessary to say that this is a very useless proceeding—since ..."
6. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1872)
"The genus Sus, comprising the true Pigs, appears to hi« commenced its existence
in the Miocene Tertiary. ..."
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