Definition of Genus Oestrus

1. Noun. Type genus of the Oestridae: sheep botflies.

Exact synonyms: Oestrus
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Hypodermatidae, Family Oestridae, Hypodermatidae, Oestridae
Member holonyms: Oestrus Ovis, Sheep Botfly, Sheep Gadfly

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Oestrus

genus Ochna
genus Ochotona
genus Ochroma
genus Ocimum
genus Octopus
genus Ocyurus
genus Odobenus
genus Odocoileus
genus Odontaspis
genus Odontoglossum
genus Odontophorus
genus Oecanthus
genus Oedogonium
genus Oenanthe
genus Oenothera
genus Oestrus (current term)
genus Okapia
genus Olea
genus Oleandra
genus Olearia
genus Olfersia
genus Oligoplites
genus Oligoporus
genus Ommastrephes
genus Omphalotus
genus Onchorynchus
genus Oncidium
genus Ondatra
genus Oniscus
genus Onobrychis

Literary usage of Genus Oestrus

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

1. The Practical Study of Malaria and Other Blood Parasites by John William Watson Stephens, Samuel Rickard Christophers (1903)
"Larvae produce ox warbles (=tumours) in the ox. (c) genus Oestrus, eg, 0. Ovis. Larvae in the respiratory passages of the sheep. ..."

2. The Entomologist's Useful Compendium: Or, An Introduction to the Knowledge by George Samouelle (1819)
"... their appearance as the places in which they are bred. In general they do not cast their skins, but change into a pupa state. Genus. OESTRUS, Gad-fly. ..."

3. The Journal of Economic Biology by Walter Edward Collinge, A. H. Reginald Buller, George Herbert Carpenter, Robert Newstead, Arthur Everett Shipley (1906)
"... removed it from the Linnean genus Oestrus and placed it in a new genus, Hypoderma, and the insect is now generally known as Hypoderma bovis. ..."

4. The study of medicine by John Mason Good (1829)
"... but far more frequently of other animals, and especially of the horse. The genus oestrus is not numerous, containing in all not ..."

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