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Definition of Genus viverra
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Viverridae.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Viverridae, Family Viverrinae, Viverridae, Viverrinae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Viverra
Literary usage of Genus viverra
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 viverra. Anal pouch large, and divided into two sacs secreting the civet
perfume of commerce; pupil vertical and oblong ; fur spotted and coarse, ..."
2. The English Cyclopaediaby Charles Knight by Charles Knight (1867)
"íE, a family of Carnivorous Animals, embracing the genus Viverra of Linnaeus.
This author thus defines his genus Viverra: —Dentés primores vi ..."
3. The American Homœopathic Pharmacopœia (1904)
"is, as in all the genus viverra, a pouch where follicular glands deposit an
unctuous matter of such pungent and insupportable odor, that at the approach of ..."
4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"... most of them essentially distinct, have been [he result of the dismemberment
of this single group. ' The trae Civets, to which the genus Viverra is now ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"A genus (Viverra) of carnivores of the Old-World family ... Fossil remains of
the genus Viverra have been found in those deposits of the Tertiary Era that ..."
6. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"A genus (Viverra) of carnivores of the Old-World family ... Fossil remains of
the genus Viverra have been found in those deposits of the Tertiary Era that ..."
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