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Definition of Pleuronectes

1. Noun. Type genus of the Pleuronectidae.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleuronectes

Literary usage of Pleuronectes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. 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 (1834)
"pleuronectes 1, L. They have a character which is unique among vertebrated ... Nevertheless, we find in 1 pleuronectes, is a name composed by Artedi, ..."

2. New Mallophaga by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Robert E. Snodgrass (1896)
"VII. (1.) Dr John Akx. Smith exhibited a Specimen of Block's Topknot (?) (pleuronectes punctatus, Bloch), taken near ..."

3. Microscopy for Beginners: Or, Common Objects from the Ponds and Ditches by Alfred Cheatham Stokes (1887)
"Body not twisted at the rear, tail short, curved. Ph. pleuronectes, Fig. 120. 2. Body twisted or not at the rear, tail long, straight. Ph. longicaudus, Fig. ..."

4. 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 (1834)
"pleuronectes 1, L. They have a character which is unique among vertebrated ... Nevertheless, we find in 1 pleuronectes, is a name composed by Artedi, ..."

5. New Mallophaga by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Robert E. Snodgrass (1896)
"VII. (1.) Dr John Akx. Smith exhibited a Specimen of Block's Topknot (?) (pleuronectes punctatus, Bloch), taken near ..."

6. Microscopy for Beginners: Or, Common Objects from the Ponds and Ditches by Alfred Cheatham Stokes (1887)
"Body not twisted at the rear, tail short, curved. Ph. pleuronectes, Fig. 120. 2. Body twisted or not at the rear, tail long, straight. Ph. longicaudus, Fig. ..."

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