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dilarid

dilarid noun: any insect of the pleasing lacewing family, Dilaridae.

dilarid: any insect of the pleasing lacewing family, Dilaridae
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Noun

dilarid (plural dilarids)

  1. Any insect of the pleasing lacewing family, Dilaridae.
    • In the laboratory, however, larval dilarids have been reared on a variety of disabled, sofy-bodied insect prey (MacLeod and Spiegler 1961).1992, Diomedes Quintero, Annette Aiello, editors, Insects of Panama and Mesoamerica: Selected Studies, page 450
    • Given the abundance of Early Cretaceous records for other families in the dilarid clade as well as the basal phylogenetic position of pleasing lacewings within this lineage, the dilarids are presumably rather ancient, perhaps relict today.2005, David Grimaldi, Evolution of the Insects, page 353

Forms of dilarid

pluraldilarids

Questions about dilarid

What does dilarid mean?
Dilarid means any insect of the pleasing lacewing family, Dilaridae.
What part of speech is dilarid?
Dilarid is a noun.
What is the plural of dilarid?
The plural of dilarid is dilarids.

Words near dilarid in the dictionary

  1. dilapidating
  2. dilapidation
  3. dilapidations
  4. dilapidator
  5. dilapidators
  6. dilarid
  7. dilarids
  8. dilatabilities
  9. dilatability
  10. dilatable
  11. dilatancies

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