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Definition of Gymnura
1. Noun. Butterfly rays.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Dasyatidae, Family Dasyatidae
Member holonyms: Butterfly Ray
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gymnura
Literary usage of Gymnura
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mammalia: Their Various Orders and Habits Popularly Illustrated by Typical by Louis Figuier, Guillaume Louis Figuier (1870)
"... their muzzle is elongated, the tail is as long as the body, and their shape
is altogether graceful. Only one species is known, the gymnura ..."
2. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"... which ought properly to have come between the shrews and the hedgehogs, the
gymnura, which, though common in the Malay countries, has only recently been ..."
3. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1838)
"Such is the character given by Dr. Horsfield and Mr. Vigors to gymnura, and they
state ... From that group however they say that gymnura is sufficiently ..."