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Definition of Genus vipera
1. Noun. Type genus of the Viperidae.
Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Family Viperidae, Viperidae
Member holonyms: Adder, Common Viper, Vipera Berus, Asp, Asp Viper, Vipera Aspis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Vipera
Literary usage of Genus vipera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1858)
"Duméril and Bibron are evidently in error in placing this animal in the genus
Vipera. In Vipera the nostrils are lateral, in Echidna latero- superior. ..."
2. The Genera of Fishes ...: A Contribution to the Stability of Scientific by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1917)
"As it is a fish, it cannot belong to the genus VIPERA L. VIPERA MARINA is apparently
merely a vernacular name, sea-viper or viper-fish being intended. ..."
3. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1831)
"... of which we shall speak farther on, compose his genus VIPERA. Fitzinger portions
out our first three divisions into three genera, which he names VIPERA, ..."
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