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Definition of Orycteropodidae
1. Noun. Aardvarks.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Group relationships: Order Tubulidentata, Tubulidentata
Member holonyms: Genus Orycteropus, Orycteropus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orycteropodidae
Literary usage of Orycteropodidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"Tliis group contains but one family, the orycteropodidae, ci' which there is hut
a single genus. The Aard Yark (earth-pig), ..."
2. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"... (Ungulata); and orycteropodidae (Edentata). Besides these it possesses 7
peculiar genera of apes, Troglodytes, Colobus, ..."
3. A Text-book of Zoogeography by Frank Evers Beddard (1895)
"orycteropodidae, or Cape anteaters, containing but a single genus Orycteropus.
Now it has been customary to associate together the anteaters of both the old ..."
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