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cassidine

cassidine noun: any beetle of the Cassidinae, also called tortoise beetles and leaf-mining beetles.

Noun

cassidine (plural cassidines)

  1. Any beetle of the Cassidinae, also called tortoise beetles and leaf-mining beetles.
    • Novel host records and feeding behaviors are reported for five species in three genera of two cassidine beetle tribes, Hemisphaerotini and Imatidiini, from Ecuador.2009 September 25, Wills Flowers, Caroline S. Chaboo, 0095. Novel host records of some cassidine leaf beetles from Ecuador (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)

Forms of cassidine

pluralcassidines

Origin of cassidine

Clipping of taxonomic name Cassidinae.

Questions about cassidine

What does cassidine mean?
Cassidine means any beetle of the Cassidinae, also called tortoise beetles and leaf-mining beetles.
What part of speech is cassidine?
Cassidine is a noun.
What is the plural of cassidine?
The plural of cassidine is cassidines.

Words near cassidine in the dictionary

  1. cassican
  2. cassicans
  3. cassid
  4. Cassiday
  5. cassideous
  6. cassidine
  7. cassidines
  8. cassidoid
  9. cassidoids
  10. cassidonies
  11. cassidony

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