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Definition of Genus Cancer
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Cancridae.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Cancridae, Family Cancridae
Member holonyms: Cancer Magister, Dungeness Crab, Cancer Irroratus, Rock Crab, Cancer Borealis, Jonah Crab
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Cancer
Literary usage of Genus Cancer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"Dr. Leach restricted the genus Cancer to the form of Cancer pagurus, Linn., the
large eatable crab of British coasts, which was, when he defined the genus, ..."
2. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1866)
"It should be remembered that Milne-Edwards's genus Cancer (Crabe) differs from
that of ... The genus Cancer of Linnaeus included a large number of species, ..."
3. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1837)
"Dr. Leach restricted the genus Cancer to the form of Cancer pagurus. ... Mr.
Bell in his interesting paper on the genus Cancer, (Zool. Trans, i. 335. ..."
4. Synopsis of the True Crabs (Brachyura) of Monterey Bay, California by Frank Walter Weymouth (1910)
"Genus CANCER Linnaeus. Cancer Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, vol. i, 625, 1758.
The genus Cancer appears to reach its highest development in the north Pacific ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"All the crabs, besides many other crustaceans, were comprehended in the Linna-an
genus Cancer; but the number of species is very great, considerably more ..."
6. The London Medical Gazette (1843)
"As respects the name to be given to the genus, cancer, or carcinoma, is clearly
the best : to limit these terms to one particular tissue, ..."
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