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Definition of Lepisosteus
1. Noun. Type genus of the Lepisosteidae: freshwater gars.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Lepisosteidae, Lepisosteidae
Member holonyms: Billfish, Gar, Garfish, Garpike, Lepisosteus Osseus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lepisosteus
Literary usage of Lepisosteus
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, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"A tolerably large species from Brazil. Lepisosteus ... The elongated body is
invested with stony scales as in Lepisosteus, and what particularly ..."
2. Paleobiology of the Williamsburg Formation (Black Mingo Group; Paleocene) of by Albert E. Sanders (1998)
"Yet three species of Lepisosteus [L. atrox, L. cuneatus, and L. simplex] are
known from the lower Eocene Green River Formation of Utah (Grande, 1980), ..."
3. On the Natural History and Classification of Fishes, Amphibians, and Reptiles. by William Swainson (1838)
"We thus find Lepisosteus to be among the pikes, what Loricaria is among the silures
... It is the total absence of all resemblance between Lepisosteus and ..."
4. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington, Smithsonian Institution (1908)
"... Peter near Sorel and River St. Lawrence below Quebec (Fortin 1864, as Lepisosteus
longirostris) ; and Bay of Quinte (Halkett 1903). ..."
5. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1835)
"supposed to approach in character to the Lepisosteus, ... In those of the recent
Lepisosteus, Chevreul found— Carbonate of Lime, . ..."
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