monachus: meaning and definitions

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What is monachus?

What is monachus?

  • In mammalogy, a genus of Phocidæ, having four incisors above and below; the monk-seals.
  • In ornithology, a genus of warblers containing such as the common blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla.
  • In entomology, a large and important genus of leaf-beetles, erected by Suffrian in 1852.

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