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Definition of Genus Apis
1. Noun. Type genus of the Apidae: honeybees.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Apidae, Family Apidae
Member holonyms: Apis Mellifera, Honeybee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Apis
Literary usage of Genus Apis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine by John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) (1802)
"... Genus, Apis, as have been di/covered in England^ tsV. 8vo. 2 vols.. PP. 64.2.
Plates. ... genus Apis ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"... or long-tongued bees ; to the genus Apis and the species ... varieties of the
genus Apis found in all parts of the world was published in 1906 by H. von ..."
3. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1866)
"Let us consider, then, that the genus Apis lives in permanently ... The genus
Apis belongs to the cosmopolites among animals, and is able to prosper in ..."
4. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1899)
"The other species known of the genus Apis all belong to the Old World, so that
there is very little doubt that A. mellifica is also ..."
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