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cytherellid

cytherellid noun: any ostracod in the family Cytherellidae.

Noun

cytherellid (plural cytherellids)

  1. Any ostracod in the family Cytherellidae.
    • According to the latter authors, domatial dimorphism takes the form of a special posterior domiciliar space for egg/brood care in females, and is found in extant ostracods such as cytherellids and the podocopid Cyprideis lineage as well as in extinct Palaeozoic groups such as kloedenellids...1998, Koen Martens, Sex and Parthenogenesis, page 188

Forms of cytherellid

pluralcytherellids

Questions about cytherellid

What does cytherellid mean?
Cytherellid means any ostracod in the family Cytherellidae.
What part of speech is cytherellid?
Cytherellid is a noun.
What is the plural of cytherellid?
The plural of cytherellid is cytherellids.

Words near cytherellid in the dictionary

  1. cytesin
  2. Cythera
  3. Cytherea
  4. Cytherean
  5. Cythereans
  6. cytherellid
  7. cytherellids
  8. Cytherian
  9. cythero-
  10. cytherocentric
  11. cytherocopine

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