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- noun Plural form of
sengi .
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Examples
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They are now called sengis to avoid confusion with true shrews.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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Elephant-shrews (also called sengis, order Macroscelidea) are small-bodied insectivorous mammals with a strictly African distribution.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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Archonta was first named by William King Gregory in 1910* to house Scandentia (tree shrews), Chiroptera, Dermoptera and Primates (Gregory also included sengis/elephant shrews within Archonta, but they were later removed from it as their affinities clearly lie elsewhere).
We flightless primates Darren Naish 2006
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Archonta was first named by William King Gregory in 1910* to house Scandentia (tree shrews), Chiroptera, Dermoptera and Primates (Gregory also included sengis/elephant shrews within Archonta, but they were later removed from it as their affinities clearly lie elsewhere).
Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Find out how the scene was filmed and how sengis outwit lizards.
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Chinese black rhinos and deinotheres, giant sengis, and yet more new lemurs
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The newly captured animal is a type of giant sengi, which have patterned coats and other distinct features from the smaller sengis.
The Conservation Report Buck 2010
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Two of the Zoo's black and rufous giant elephant-shrews, or sengis, had a little baby elephant-shrew several weeks ago, but zookeepers in the Small Mammal House only announced they discovered the animal late Friday.
DCist 2009
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