Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of Eurypteridæ. E. remipes is an example.
- noun A genus of hesperid butterflies, the type of which is E. gigas of the Peruvian Andes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Paleon.) A genus of extinct Merostomata, found in Silurian rocks. Some of the species are more than three feet long.
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Restorations in plaster of paris of the fossil crustaceous eurypterus and hughmilleria were also exhibited.
New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Report of the New York State Commission DeLancey M. Ellis
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