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cyamid

cyamid noun: a crustacean of the family Cyamidae; a whale louse.

Noun

cyamid (plural cyamids)

  1. A crustacean of the family Cyamidae; a whale louse.
    • These are callosities: roughened skin caused by infestations of what ‘lice’ (which are actually parasitic crustaceans called cyamids less than an inch long that feed on flakes of skin).2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 271

Forms of cyamid

pluralcyamids

Origin of cyamid

From family name Cyamidae.

Questions about cyamid

What does cyamid mean?
Cyamid means a crustacean of the family Cyamidae; a whale louse.
What part of speech is cyamid?
Cyamid is a noun.
What is the plural of cyamid?
The plural of cyamid is cyamids.

Words near cyamid in the dictionary

  1. cya
  2. cyacetacide
  3. cyamelide
  4. cyamella
  5. cyamemazine
  6. cyamid
  7. cyamids
  8. cyamiid
  9. cyamiids
  10. cyamodontid
  11. cyamodontids

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