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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In entomology: A genus or noctuid moths.
  • noun A genus of weevils of the subfamily Otiorhynchinæ.
  • noun In mammalogy, a genus of anthropoid apes of the family Simiidæ, a type of which is the chimpanzee: so called from the likeness to man.
  • noun In ornithology: A genus of Australian orioles of the family Oriolidæ. King, 1826. Also Mimeta (Vigors and Horsfield, 1826).
  • noun Same as Mimus.

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