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Definition of Oryctolagus
1. Noun. Old World rabbits.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Leporidae, Leporidae
Member holonyms: European Rabbit, Old World Rabbit, Oryctolagus Cuniculus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oryctolagus
Literary usage of Oryctolagus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1914)
"Head slightly more developed than in oryctolagus, with the cephalic process ...
Quadrate, and even more massive than that of oryctolagus, but of the same ..."
2. British Mammals: An Attempt to Describe and Illustrate the Mammalian Fauna by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1903)
"The hares and rabbits are now generally divided into two distinct genera,
oryctolagus and Lepus, because there are differences in structure and habits ..."
3. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections by Smithsonian Institution (1903)
"oryctolagus cuniculus, domestic, Belgian hare, No. 105402. 2. ... oryctolagus
cuniculus, wild, No. 3124, England. 5. oryctolagus cuniculus, wild, No. ..."
4. Mammalian Models for Research on Aging by Bennett J. Cohen, Institute Of Laboratory Animal Resources, National Research Council Staff (1981)
"The laboratory rabbit (oryctolagus cuniculus) and other rabbits, hares, and pikas
were originally classified as members of the order Rodent.ia. ..."
5. Practical Anatomy of the Rabbit: An Elementary Laboratory Textbook in by Benjamin Arthur Bensley (1910)
"They are all descen- dents of the wild rabbit (oryctolagus ... the European Common
Rabbit (oryctolagus cuniculus), and Hare (Lepus ..."
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