Definition of Genus Homarus

1. Noun. Type genus of the family Homaridae: common edible lobsters.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Homarus

genus Hippodamia
genus Hippoglossoides
genus Hippoglossus
genus Hippopotamus
genus Hipposideros
genus Hippotragus
genus Hipsurus
genus Hirudo
genus Hirundo
genus Hoheria
genus Holarrhena
genus Holbrookia
genus Holcus
genus Holocentrus
genus Holothuria
genus Homarus (current term)
genus Homo
genus Homogyne
genus Homona
genus Hordeum
genus Horneophyton
genus Hosta
genus Hottonia
genus Houttuynia
genus Hovea
genus Hoya
genus Hudsonia
genus Hugueninia
genus Hulsea
genus Humulus

Literary usage of Genus Homarus

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

1. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley (1902)
"... with the Cancer capensis of Herbst; but, as it is stated in the definition of the genus Homarus (I. c. ..."

2. Introduction to Zoology: A Guide to the Study of Animals ; for the Use of by Charles Benedict Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty Davenport (1902)
"The lobster (Homarus) is, as we have already seen, the nearest living salt-water relative of the crayfish. There are only two species of the genus Homarus. ..."

3. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1873)
"... to it are confused and contradictory. De Haan (Fauna Japonica, Crustacea, p. 146) states the number, for the genus Homarus, as nineteen on each side, ..."

4. Elements of Zoology: To Accompany the Field and Laboratory Study of Animals by Charles Benedict Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty Davenport (1911)
"There are only two species of the genus Homarus. One, Homarus americanus, occurs on our Atlantic coast ; the other, H. vulgaris, is the lobster ..."

5. Appleton's New Practical Cyclopedia: A New Work of Reference Based Upon the edited by Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar (1920)
"... and genus homarus. The common lobster of the US (H. Americanus) varies in length, as caught for the market, from 1 to 2 ft., though specimens are seen ..."

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