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cytherellids

cytherellids is the plural of cytherellid.

Meaning of cytherellid

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

Questions about cytherellids

What is cytherellids the plural of?
Cytherellids is the plural of cytherellid.

Words near cytherellids in the dictionary

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

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