Definition of Lutra

1. Noun. In some classifications considered a genus of the subfamily Lutrinae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Lutra
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Mustelidae, Mustelidae
Member holonyms: Otter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lutra

Lutheranist
Lutherans
Lutherism
Lutherist
Lutherists
Lutjanidae
Lutjanus
Lutjanus analis
Lutjanus apodus
Lutjanus blackfordi
Lutjanus griseus
Luton
Lutonian
Lutonians
Lutons
Lutra (current term)
Lutra canadensis
Lutra lutra
Lutrinae
Lutsk
Lutyens
Lutz-Splendore-Almeida disease
Lutzen
Lutzomyia
Lutzomyia flaviscutellata
Lutzomyia intermedius
Lutzomyia longipalpis
Lutzomyia peruensis
Luvaridae
Luvarus

Literary usage of Lutra

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

1. A History of British Quadrupeds, Including the Cetacea by Thomas Bell, Robert F. Tomes, Edward Richard Alston (1874)
"Genus, Lutra. OTTER. (reverie Character.—Body elongated and low ; feet with five toes on caeli, palmate*! ; tail flattened horizontally ; incisive teeth J, ..."

2. Catalogue of Carnivorous, Pachydermatous, and Edentate Mammalia in the by John Edward Gray (1869)
"Lutra insularis, F. Cuvier, Diet. Sri. Nat. xxvii. p. 345. ... Lutra. The muzzle bald, oblong-transverse, with a straight upper and lower edge; ..."

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