Definition of Blarina

1. Noun. Shrews.

Exact synonyms: Genus Blarina
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Soricidae, Soricidae
Member holonyms: Blarina Brevicauda, Short-tailed Shrew

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blarina

Blaise Pascal
Blake
Blalock-Hanlon operation
Blalock-Taussig shunt
Blalock shunt
Blanch
Blanche
Blanchotian
Blandfordia
Blandin's gland
Blankley
Blankshire
Blanquism
Blantyre
Blarina
Blarina brevicauda
Blarney Stone
Blase
Blasius
Blasius' duct
Blastocladia
Blastocladiales
Blastoconidium
Blastodiaceae
Blastomyces dermatitidis
Blatin's syndrome
Blatta
Blatta orientalis
Blattaria

Literary usage of Blarina

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

1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1890)
"Recently I have had an opportunity to obtain the eyes of the short-tailed shrew-mole, blarina talpoides, and thinking tlieir anatomy might present something ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"It is divisible into two subgenera— blarina proper, and Cryptotis, chiefly in reference to the ... In general the species of blarina are much the larger, ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"The nests of blarina are always underground; those of Microtus are more ... blarina uses all its nesting materials unaltered; Microtus shreds or tears ..."

4. The Published Writings of Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1843-1882 by George Brown Goode (1883)
"blarina, QUAY. 14. ... blarina brevicauda. Gray pi. xxx 42 16. blarina ... blarina cinerea .' pL xxx 45 10. blarina ..."

5. Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio by Geological Survey of Ohio (1882)
"blarina talpoides, Baird, Mam. NA, 1857, 37. 1857. blarina brevicauda ... blarina) brevicauda, Coues, Precursory Notes on American Insectivorous Mammals. ..."

6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1890)
"Recently I have had an opportunity to obtain the eyes of the short-tailed shrew-mole, blarina talpoides, and thinking tlieir anatomy might present something ..."

7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"It is divisible into two subgenera— blarina proper, and Cryptotis, chiefly in reference to the ... In general the species of blarina are much the larger, ..."

8. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"The nests of blarina are always underground; those of Microtus are more ... blarina uses all its nesting materials unaltered; Microtus shreds or tears ..."

9. The Published Writings of Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1843-1882 by George Brown Goode (1883)
"blarina, QUAY. 14. ... blarina brevicauda. Gray pi. xxx 42 16. blarina ... blarina cinerea .' pL xxx 45 10. blarina ..."

10. Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio by Geological Survey of Ohio (1882)
"blarina talpoides, Baird, Mam. NA, 1857, 37. 1857. blarina brevicauda ... blarina) brevicauda, Coues, Precursory Notes on American Insectivorous Mammals. ..."

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