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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An old division of mammals formed for those which have no hind limbs, as the cetaceans and sirenians.

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Examples

  • The population of Gehyra mutilata has been severely reduced.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • Gehyra mutilata is a medium-sized species, famous for the trick of peeling free of its own skin, coming out pink and naked and raw, to escape the grasp of a predator.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • The population of Gehyra mutilata has been severely reduced.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • Gehyra mutilata is a medium-sized species, famous for the trick of peeling free of its own skin, coming out pink and naked and raw, to escape the grasp of a predator.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • Franciscus Dousa Jani filius, sed multi - modis deformata, mutilata, atque parum profi - cientia ad rem poeticam aut satiricam; ideoque difficile admodum ex iis rectum de LuciUo ferri judicium posset: cum autem aUunde multa gram - matices ac philologiae respectu perutiha praebe - rent, praesertim propter verba innumera, vene - randam antiquitatem redolentia, ea denuo typis mandanda curavi.

    Satirae ad codices Parisinos Achaintre, Nicolas Louis, 1771-1836 1812

  • In Kimchii vero Commentario integra exhibent sexcenta insignia loca de Chri - sto ac Christianis, et de Edom ac Ro - ma, quae in recentioribus omnibus edi - tionibus omissa sunt vel mutilata • Con - fer potissimum Isai. 11 22, vn 14, xi 14, xxxiv 1, xxxiv 7 et 9,

    Annales Hebraeo-typographici sec. XV De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo, 1742-1831 1795

  • Editio prior fincera, non mutilata, eta Pariamen - toiPaiiOcnfi dt» äänuam et paeoe incrwWiHqni mn

    Bibliotheca historica. A.I.G. Meuselio ita digesta ut pæne novum opus videri possit Burcard Gotthelff Struve 1782

  • Nondum conje - fturam illam damno \ fed videant tamen eruditi, num J) otius fignificare illi, qui monumenta ifta pofuerunt, ye - int, corpora non mutilata, veriynintcgra humata effe.

    Lucii Caecilii Firmiani Lactantii De mortibus persecutorum, cum notis Stephani Baluzii ... Lactantius, Paul Bauldri, Etienne Baluze , Nicolas Thoynard , Johan Columbus , Thomas Spark , Joannes Georgius Graevius, Gisbertus Cuperus, Elias Boherellus, Thomas Gale 1692

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