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cyamids

cyamids is the plural of cyamid.

Meaning of cyamid

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

Questions about cyamids

What is cyamids the plural of?
Cyamids is the plural of cyamid.

Words near cyamids in the dictionary

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

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