Definition of Genus Oryctolagus

1. Noun. Old World rabbits.

Exact synonyms: Oryctolagus
Generic synonyms: Mammal Genus
Group relationships: Family Leporidae, Leporidae
Member holonyms: European Rabbit, Old World Rabbit, Oryctolagus Cuniculus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Oryctolagus

genus Orectolobus
genus Oreopteris
genus Oreortyx
genus Origanum
genus Oriolus
genus Orites
genus Ormosia
genus Ornithogalum
genus Ornithorhynchus
genus Orontium
genus Ortalis
genus Orthilia
genus Orthopristis
genus Orthotomus
genus Orycteropus
genus Oryctolagus (current term)
genus Oryx
genus Oryza
genus Oryzomys
genus Oryzopsis
genus Osmanthus
genus Osmerus
genus Osmunda
genus Ostrea
genus Ostrya
genus Ostryopsis
genus Otaria
genus Othonna
genus Otis
genus Otus

Literary usage of Genus Oryctolagus

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

1. The History of the European Fauna by Robert Francis Scharff (1899)
"The genus Lepus is probably not of Lusitanian origin, but the sub-genus Oryctolagus—to which our common Rabbit belongs—has no doubt had its original home in ..."

2. British Mammals: An Attempt to Describe and Illustrate the Mammalian Fauna by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1903)
"THE COMMON RABBIT This creature is perhaps the only type of the genus Oryctolagus which, although connected by intermediate forms, differs in the following ..."

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