Definition of Genus brevoortia

1. Noun. Menhaden.

Exact synonyms: Brevoortia
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Clupeidae, Family Clupeidae
Member holonyms: Brevoortia Tyrannis, Menhaden

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Brevoortia

genus Bouteloua
genus Bowiea
genus Boykinia
genus Brachinus
genus Brachychiton
genus Brachycome
genus Brachystegia
genus Bradypus
genus Brama
genus Branchiobdella
genus Branta
genus Brasenia
genus Brevoortia
genus Brickelia
genus Brodiaea
genus Bromus
genus Brontosaurus
genus Broussonetia
genus Browallia
genus Browmius
genus Bruchus
genus Bruckenthalia
genus Brugmansia
genus Brunfelsia
genus Brya
genus Bryanthus
genus Bryonia

Literary usage of Genus brevoortia

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

1. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1899)
"On the proper specific name of the anten- genus brevoortia. (In : Smithsonian Institution Miscellaneous Collections, v. 19'. Washington, 1880. ..."

2. Elementary Textbook of Economic Zoology and Entomology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Rennie Wilbur Doane (1915)
"Although the menhaden (genus Brevoortia) are but little valued for food, they are of great commercial importance on account of the oil that is extracted ..."

3. Reports of the North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1907)
"It is caught incidentally with menhaden about Beaufort and is utilized at the fertilizer factories. The local name is "hairy-back". Genus BREVOORTIA Gill. ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1880)
"... elsewhere demonstrated, to adopt the specific name tyrannus. The genus Brevoortia, of which this species is the type, was established by Gill, in 1861. ..."

5. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1880)
"... elsewhere demonstrated, to adopt the specific name tyrannus. The genus Brevoortia, of which this species is the type, was established by Gill, in 1861. ..."

6. A Memorial of George Brown Goode, Together with a Selection of His Papers on by Samuel Pierpont Langley, George Brown Goode, Randolph Iltyd Geare, United States National Museum (1901)
"A Revision of the American Species of the genus brevoortia, with a description of a New Species from the Gulf of Mexico. Proceedings of the US National ..."

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