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ditomine

ditomine noun: a ground beetle of the subtribe Ditomina.

Noun

ditomine (plural ditomines)

  1. A ground beetle of the subtribe Ditomina.
    • In many ditomines and harpalines, the males possess four laterally extended tarsi, but both sexes climb on umbelliferous plants and other herbs with the same ease.2000, Pietro Brandmayr, Natural History and Applied Ecology of Carabid Beetles, page 87
    • They also advocated raising selenophorines, ditomines, and amblystomines to subtribe level.2012, Yves Bousquet, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, North of Mexico, page 57

Forms of ditomine

pluralditomines

Questions about ditomine

What does ditomine mean?
Ditomine means a ground beetle of the subtribe Ditomina.
What part of speech is ditomine?
Ditomine is a noun.
What is the plural of ditomine?
The plural of ditomine is ditomines.

Words near ditomine in the dictionary

  1. Ditmars
  2. Ditmarses
  3. ditokous
  4. ditolyl
  5. ditolyls
  6. ditomine
  7. ditomines
  8. DiTommaso
  9. DiTommasos
  10. ditomyiid
  11. ditomyiids

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