Definition of Genus Holbrookia

1. Noun. Earless lizards.

Exact synonyms: Holbrookia
Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Family Iguania, Family Iguanidae, Iguania, Iguanidae
Member holonyms: Earless Lizard

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Holbrookia

genus Hippeastrum
genus Hippobosca
genus Hippocampus
genus Hippocrepis
genus Hippodamia
genus Hippoglossoides
genus Hippoglossus
genus Hippopotamus
genus Hipposideros
genus Hippotragus
genus Hipsurus
genus Hirudo
genus Hirundo
genus Hoheria
genus Holarrhena
genus Holbrookia (current term)
genus Holcus
genus Holocentrus
genus Holothuria
genus Homarus
genus Homo
genus Homogyne
genus Homona
genus Hordeum
genus Horneophyton
genus Hosta
genus Hottonia
genus Houttuynia
genus Hovea
genus Hoya

Literary usage of Genus Holbrookia

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

1. Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah by Howard Stansbury, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Charles Frédéric Girard, Samuel Stehman Haldeman, John Torrey, James Hall (1853)
"Genus HOLBROOKIA, Girard. Syn. ... The genus Holbrookia will, no doubt, prove somewhat related to ..."

2. Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive by United States Congress. Senate (1851)
"The genus Holbrookia will, no doubt, prove somewhat related to Crotaphytus, having, like the latter, the upper surface of the head covered with small and ..."

3. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"genus Holbrookia. The Genus Callisaurus: A single species is recognised. It is confined to the arid regions of the southwestern United States and northern ..."

4. The Geology of the Environs of Albuquerque, New Mexico by Clarence Luther Herrick (1899)
"... however, denies that it occurs in either Texas or New Mexico. Genus. HOLBROOKIA. Unlike the related genera, this genus is devoid of external ear discs, ..."

5. An Expedition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah: Including a by Howard Stansbury (1855)
"Having the same saurian in our possession, collected in the same locality, as a second but undescribed species of our genus Holbrookia, we could readily ..."

6. Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana in the Year 1852 by United States War Dept, Randolph Barnes Marcy, George Brinton McClellan (1854)
"The genus Holbrookia bears a striking resemblance to the one just described; it has the same general form, the same sub-triangular head, covered with small ..."

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