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dithrycine

dithrycine noun: any fly of the tribe Dithrycini.

Noun

dithrycine (plural dithrycines)

  1. Any fly of the tribe Dithrycini.
    • ... Artemisia (B. Merz, unpublished data); however, Ptiloedaspis does not share synapomorphies with other dithrycines, which induce stem galls on Artemisia.(Can we date this quote?), Phylogenetic relationships, ecology and ecological genetics of cecidogeneous Tephritidae. Raman, A., Schaefer, C. W., Withers, T. M., eds: Biology, Ecology and Evolution of...

Forms of dithrycine

pluraldithrycines

Origin of dithrycine

Clipping of taxonomic name Dithrycini.

Questions about dithrycine

What does dithrycine mean?
Dithrycine means any fly of the tribe Dithrycini.
What part of speech is dithrycine?
Dithrycine is a noun.
What is the plural of dithrycine?
The plural of dithrycine is dithrycines.

Words near dithrycine in the dictionary

  1. dithizonates
  2. dithizone
  3. Dithmarschen
  4. dithorium
  5. dithranol
  6. dithrycine
  7. dithulium
  8. dithymoquinone
  9. dithyramb
  10. dithyrambi
  11. dithyrambic

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