Definition of Genus Engraulis

1. Noun. Type genus of the family Engraulidae.

Exact synonyms: Engraulis
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Member holonyms: Engraulis Encrasicholus, Mediterranean Anchovy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Engraulis

genus Elodea
genus Elops
genus Elsholtzia
genus Elymus
genus Emberiza
genus Embothrium
genus Emilia
genus Emmanthe
genus Empetrum
genus Encelia
genus Enceliopsis
genus Encephalartos
genus Encyclia
genus Endamoeba
genus Engelmannia
genus Engraulis (current term)
genus Enhydra
genus Ensete
genus Ensis
genus Entandrophragma
genus Entelea
genus Enterobius
genus Enterolobium
genus Entoloma
genus Entomophthora
genus Eoraptor
genus Epacris
genus Ephedra
genus Ephestia
genus Ephippiorhynchus

Literary usage of Genus Engraulis

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

1. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"They are small in size and weak in muscle, found in all warm seas, 'and making a large part of the food of the larger fish. The genus Engraulis includes the ..."

2. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"genus Engraulis CUVIER This genus contains those spindle-shaped anchovies of the north and south Temperate zones which have the body little compressed, ..."

3. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"Reduced. common existing Herring is shown in fig. 933. The Lebanon Chalk has also yielded a species of the living genus Engraulis ; ina the extinct genera ..."

4. Adulterations Detected; Or, Plain Instructions for the Discovery of Frauds by Arthur Hill Hassall (1857)
"The fins have the same disposition as the true anchovy, and the same number of rays ; and it is possible that this fish may be one of the genus Engraulis, ..."

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