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Definition of Enhydra
1. Noun. Sea otters.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Mustelidae, Mustelidae
Member holonyms: Enhydra Lutris, Sea Otter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enhydra
Literary usage of Enhydra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"The sea otter (enhydra marina, Flora.) resembles a seal more than an otter ; the
head is short and very broad, the ears very small, the nose with a naked ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1867)
"Enhydra of Fleming (Philosophy of Zoology), in having the first premolar suppressed
above, but that the latter has also the first premolar suppressed below. ..."
3. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1836)
"In the common Otter, from the extremity of the radius to the nail of the last
phalanx of the third finger the measurement is 3 inches ; in the Enhydra it is ..."
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