Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of the subfamily Dasyurinæ, formerly coextensive with the subfamily, now restricted by the exclusion of Thylacinus and Sarcophilus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the type genus of the family Dasyuridae: native cats.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type genus of the family Dasyuridae: native cats
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Examples
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Common rodents are gerbil Gerbillus dasyurus and the Sundevall's jird Meriones crassus.
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The animals were not numerous; he gives kangaroo, wolf (the dingo or native dog), bats (flying foxes), wild cats (dasyurus), and opossums.
The Life of Captain James Cook Kitson, Arthur 1907
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a dasyurus (Figure 2 Plate 51) it can scarcely be doubted that this part of the skeleton was imbedded in the cement when the ligaments still bound the bones together.
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823
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The various species of kangaroo, phascolomys, dasyurus, and perameles, the flying phalangers, the ornithorynchi, and echidnæ, have astonished naturalists by the strangeness of their conformations, which presented proportions contrary to all former rules, and were incapable of being arranged under any of the systems then in use. "
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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