Definition of Genus Alligator

1. Noun. Type genus of the Alligatoridae.

Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Alligatoridae, Family Alligatoridae
Member holonyms: Alligator, Gator

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Alligator

genus Alcelaphus
genus Alces
genus Aldrovanda
genus Alectis
genus Alectoria
genus Alectoris
genus Alectura
genus Alepisaurus
genus Aletris
genus Aleurites
genus Aleyrodes
genus Algeripithecus
genus Alisma
genus Allamanda
genus Alliaria
genus Alligator (current term)
genus Allionia
genus Allium
genus Allosaurus
genus Alnus
genus Alocasia
genus Aloe
genus Alopecurus
genus Alopex
genus Alopius
genus Alosa
genus Alouatta
genus Alpinia
genus Alsobia
genus Alsophila

Literary usage of Genus Alligator

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

1. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1890)
"The Chinese Alligator belongs to the genus Alligator in the restricted sense ; its nearest ally is the North-American A. mississippi- ensis, which differs ..."

2. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"The North American species are easily separated, thus: genus Alligator. Head broad and rounded at the snout. Blackish, with dull yellow markings. ..."

3. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"... of the genus Alligator; the American alligator, A. mississippiensis, inhabits the southeastern United States; and the Chinese alligator, A. sinensis, ..."

4. The Alligator and Its Allies by Albert Moore Reese (1915)
"The snout is blunt like that of the genus Alligator. Alleged to grow to this size by competent observers. ..."

5. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1915)
"They ranged much farther north during the Tertiary than they do now; the most progressive modern genus, Alligator, has the most northerly range, ..."

6. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"The genus Alligator is by some naturalists of the present day divided into three genera, to one of which the name C. (Caiman) is appropriated, ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Genus Alligator on Dictionary.com!Search for Genus Alligator on Thesaurus.com!Search for Genus Alligator on Google!Search for Genus Alligator on Wikipedia!

Search