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Definition of Genus Dreissena
1. Noun. Zebra mussels.
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Genus
Group relationships: Family Unionidae, Unionidae
Member holonyms: Dreissena Polymorpha, Zebra Mussel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Dreissena
Literary usage of Genus Dreissena
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"133, C. Now let us suppose, as happens in the genus Dreissena— a genus not far
removed from Mytilus—that the ciliated ..."
2. A Manual of Palæontology for the Use of Students with a General Introduction by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1879)
"... of the Cretaceous, Tertiary, and Recent, is another ally of Modiola. The genus
Dreissena (including ..."
3. Communication from the Secretary of the Treasury: Transmitting, in by United States Dept. of the Treasury, Israel De Wolf Andrews (1853)
"... resembling the genus Dreissena, a fresh-water shell ; but they have not been
fully determined and described, having been mistaken probably for the genus ..."
4. Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive by United States Congress. Senate (1852)
"Beneath the great masses of coal formed from the stems of Sigil- laria, we find
a thin bed of black shale filled with shells, resembling the genus Dreissena ..."
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