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coccinelloid

coccinelloid noun: any beetle of the superfamily Coccinelloidea.

Noun

coccinelloid (plural coccinelloids)

  1. Any beetle of the superfamily Coccinelloidea.
    • Based on that phylogenetic hypothesis, the taxonomic definitions of many coccinelloid groups were reconsidered.2022 November 24, Emmanuel Arriaga-Varela, Wioletta Tomaszewska, Karol Szawaryn, James Robertson, Matthias Seidel, Adam Ślipiński, Martin Fikáček, “The resurrection of Cerasommatidiidae, an enigmatic...
    • Habitus photographs of cucujoid (A–H), cleroid (I) and coccinelloid (J–L) taxa.(Can we date this quote?), James A. Robertson, “Figure 1”, in ResearchGate

Forms of coccinelloid

pluralcoccinelloids

Origin of coccinelloid

Clipping of taxonomic name Coccinelloidea.

Questions about coccinelloid

What does coccinelloid mean?
Coccinelloid means any beetle of the superfamily Coccinelloidea.
What part of speech is coccinelloid?
Coccinelloid is a noun.
What is the plural of coccinelloid?
The plural of coccinelloid is coccinelloids.

Words near coccinelloid in the dictionary

  1. Coccimiglios
  2. coccinelid
  3. coccinelids
  4. coccinellid
  5. coccinellids
  6. coccinelloid
  7. coccineous
  8. coccinic acid
  9. coccinite
  10. coccinites
  11. Cocco

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