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Definition of Genus Carcharodon
1. Noun. Man-eating sharks.
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Lamnidae, Lamnidae
Member holonyms: Carcharodon Carcharias, Great White Shark, Man-eater, Man-eating Shark, White Shark
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Carcharodon
Literary usage of Genus Carcharodon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association by Geologists' Association (1900)
"... same genus from the Eocene of Belgium, named O. nova, Winkler, and O. winkleri,
Vincent. GENUS Carcharodon. The teeth of Carcharodon resemble those of ..."
2. Fishes by David Starr Jordan (1907)
"The genus Carcharodon is known at once by its broad, evenly triangular, knife-like
teeth, with finely serrated edges, and without notch or cusp of any kind. ..."
3. Transactions of the Leeds Geological Association by Leeds Geological Association (1891)
"... the teeth have a central cavity; the teeth of existing fishes are hollow.
The genus Carcharodon is separated by Smith from the genus Carcharias. ..."
4. Palaeontology or a systematic summary of extinct animals and their by Richard Owen (1861)
"... but solid and usually of large size, are referred to the genus Carcharodon.
One of these teeth, from miocene beds, Malta, in the Hunterian Museum, ..."
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