Definition of Lagorchestes

1. Noun. Hare wallabies.

Exact synonyms: Genus Lagorchestes
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Macropodidae, Macropodidae
Member holonyms: Hare Wallaby, Kangaroo Hare

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lagorchestes

Lag b'Omer
Lagarostrobus
Lagarostrobus colensoi
Lagarostrobus franklinii
Lagenaria
Lagenaria siceraria
Lagenophera
Lagerstroemia
Lagerstroemia indica
Lagerstroemia speciosa
Lagidium
Lagodon
Lagodon rhomboides
Lagopus
Lagopus scoticus
Lagorchestes (current term)
Lagos
Lagostomus
Lagostomus maximus
Lagothrix
Lagrange's equations
Lagrange disk
Lagrange point
Lagrange points
Lagrangian
Lagrangian function
Lagrangian point
Lagrangians
Laguncularia
Laguncularia racemosa

Literary usage of Lagorchestes

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

1. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1844)
"... of some Mammalia and Aves of Western Australia:— "With respect to the Kangaroos, I have heard of the little silver- haired Lagorchestes (Lagorchestes ..."

2. A Natural History of the Mammalia by George Robert Waterhouse (1846)
"... upon the same type as the true Kangaroos, which also, like Lagorchestes, inhabit the open plains. That Lagorchestes forms a natural group I admit ..."

3. Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta by John Anderson, William Lutley Sclater, Indian Museum (1891)
"Macropus elegans, G. Cuvier Regne Anim., i, p. 183 (1817). Lagorchestes ... Lagorchestes fasciatus, Gould Mamm. Austr., pi. Ivi (l$49). ..."

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