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Definition of Pangolins
1. pangolin [n] - See also: pangolin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pangolins
Literary usage of Pangolins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"... and the pangolins are, in the view of some good naturalists, quite as important
as those separating both from the ant-eaters, etc., of the New World, ..."
2. Mammalia: Their Various Orders and Habits Popularly Illustrated by Typical by Louis Figuier, Guillaume Louis Figuier (1870)
"THE pangolins (Manis, Linn.)—The pangolins are also Ant- eaters, but the peculiar
nature of the covering of their bodies vw not allow them to be classed ..."
3. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1840)
"The hind-loot of the Hairy Ant-eaters and the pangolins is as solid as that of
any animal. ... The pangolins are remarkable for the strength of their caudal ..."
4. The Evolution of Life by Hubbard Winslow Mitchell (1891)
"The Quaternary period—Re'sum^ of the origin of life—Formation of permanent
climates—Distribution of groups of animals — Sloths — Armadillos — pangolins ..."
5. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"In the pangolins their point is forked, whilst in the Hairy Ant-Eaters it is ...
In the pangolins the general structure of the fore foot is the same as in ..."
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