Definition of Orycteropodidae

1. Noun. Aardvarks.

Exact synonyms: Family Orycteropodidae
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Group relationships: Order Tubulidentata, Tubulidentata
Member holonyms: Genus Orycteropus, Orycteropus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Orycteropodidae

Orthopristis
Orthopristis chrysopterus
Orthotomus
Orthotomus sutorius
Ortilis vetula macalli
Orton
Ortonesque
Orudis
Orudis KT
Orunmila
Oruvail
Orville
Orville Wright
Orwell
Orwellian
Orycteropodidae (current term)
Orycteropus
Orycteropus afer
Oryctolagus
Oryctolagus cuniculus
Oryol
Oryx gazella
Oryza sativa
Oryzomys
Oryzomys palustris
Oryzopsis
Oryzopsis hymenoides
Oryzopsis miliacea
Osage
Osage River

Literary usage of Orycteropodidae

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

1. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1902)
"Tliis group contains but one family, the Orycteropodidae, ci' which there is hut a single genus. The Aard Yark (earth-pig), ..."

2. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"... (Ungulata); and Orycteropodidae (Edentata). Besides these it possesses 7 peculiar genera of apes, Troglodytes, Colobus, ..."

3. A Text-book of Zoogeography by Frank Evers Beddard (1895)
"Orycteropodidae, or Cape anteaters, containing but a single genus Orycteropus. Now it has been customary to associate together the anteaters of both the old ..."

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