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Definition of Jerboas
1. jerboa [n] - See also: jerboa
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jerboas
Literary usage of Jerboas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"See jerboas. DIQUE, dek, Canal del, Colombia, an "artificial arm" of the Magdalena
River in the department of Bolivar. It is navigable by steamers, ..."
2. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"GENUS DIPUS—THE jerboas. Hind feet with three digits; tail cylindrical and tufted;
incisors grooved; premolars absent, or, if found, then in the upper jaw ..."
3. The Bāz-nāma-yi Nāsirī: A Persian Treatise on Falconry by Husām al-Daulah Timūr ibn Husain ʻAlī, Mīrzā, Douglas Craven Phillott (1908)
"... which moults better than any other kind of hawk, for it moults quite two months
earlier than other hawks.1 CHAPTER XLI ON FEEDING ON jerboas CUBING THE ..."
4. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature by Oliver Goldsmith (1856)
"In the jerboas the check- iK'iies are very prominent, which gives a singular and
Halted form to the front part ot the head. The mu/zle is short, large, ..."
5. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"These point« of difference he considers of sufficient importance to justify a
distinct genus for the jerboas with five toes, adopting the ..."
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