Definition of Genus Tamias

1. Noun. Chipmunks of eastern North America.

Exact synonyms: Tamias
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Sciuridae, Sciuridae
Member holonyms: Eastern Chipmunk, Ground Squirrel, Hackee, Striped Squirrel, Tamias Striatus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Tamias

genus Syringa
genus Syrrhaptes
genus Syzygium
genus Tabernaemontana
genus Tacca
genus Tachyglossus
genus Tachypleus
genus Tadarida
genus Tadorna
genus Taenia
genus Tagetes
genus Talinum
genus Tamandua
genus Tamarindus
genus Tamarix
genus Tamias (current term)
genus Tamiasciurus
genus Tamus
genus Tanacetum
genus Tantilla
genus Tapirus
genus Taraktagenos
genus Taraktogenos
genus Taraxacum
genus Taricha
genus Tarpon
genus Tarrietia
genus Tarsius
genus Taurotragus
genus Tautoga

Literary usage of Genus Tamias

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

1. The Viviparious Quadrupeds of North America by John James Audubon, John Bachman (1846)
"from that genus, no doubt naturalists will arrange them in the genus TAMIAS. When this genus was first established by ILLIGER, but a single species was ..."

2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"Camel's hair" brushes are made from this animal. The genus Tamias, almost exclusively North American in range, is included by ..."

3. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1903)
"A Review of Some of the North American Ground Squirrels of the genus Tamias. By JA Allen. Vol. Ill, No. i, Article iv, pp. 45-116. Price, 50 cents. 25. ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... all referable to the genus Tamias. In North America ground-squirrels are migratory, and may be abundant in a district one year, and absent the next. ..."

5. Foundations of Biology by Lorande Loss Woodruff (1922)
"This dissimilarity and similarity is expressed by placing them in a different genus, Tamias, but in the same FAMILY, Sciuridae. ..."

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