Word.ws English Dictionary

cyclorrhaphans

cyclorrhaphans is the plural of cyclorrhaphan.

Meaning of cyclorrhaphan

Noun

cyclorrhaphan (plural cyclorrhaphans)

  1. Any fly of the taxon Cyclorrhapha
    • Because circumversion originated in the Platypezidae and persists through the highest forms of the Schizophora, because it is featured in the lowest and among the highest cyclorrhaphans, we are convinced that the suborder Cyclorrhapha is properly considered to be a monophyletic group.1968, The Wasmann Journal of Biology, volume 26, page 103
    Synonyms:
    circular-seamed fly

Questions about cyclorrhaphans

What is cyclorrhaphans the plural of?
Cyclorrhaphans is the plural of cyclorrhaphan.

Words near cyclorrhaphans in the dictionary

  1. cyclorns
  2. cyclorotation
  3. cyclorotations
  4. cyclorphan
  5. cyclorrhaphan
  6. cyclorrhaphans
  7. cyclorrhaphous
  8. cyclorubber
  9. cyclorubbers
  10. cycloruthenate
  11. cycloruthenated

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cyclorrhaphans (page history and authors); cyclorrhaphan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cyclorrhaphans.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cyclorrhaphans. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.