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Definition of Tanrecs
1. tanrec [n] - See also: tanrec
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tanrecs
Literary usage of Tanrecs
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)
"The tanrecs are rather more slender and lanky, their prickles are less rigid and
... Some authors have affirmed that the tanrecs are torpid during the hot ..."
2. A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon, John Wright (1831)
"What strongly proves this is, their not rolling themselves up in the shape of a
ball, like the hedgehog ; and where the tanrecs are found, as at Madagascar, ..."
3. A Manual of Zoology for the Use of Students: With a General Introduction on by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1887)
"This family includes the so-called "tanrecs" or "Tenrecs" ... The tanrecs are
small animals, somewhat resembling Hedgehogs in appearance and ..."
4. Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals by John George Wood (1866)
"... and the tanrecs of Madagascar, all insectivorous animals; there are the various
porcupines which inhabit Africa, Asia, Southern Europe, and America, ..."
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