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encyrtids

encyrtids is the plural of encyrtid.

Meaning of encyrtid

Noun

encyrtid (plural encyrtids)

  1. Any parasitic wasp in the family Encyrtidae.
    • In most chalcidoids, the mesopleura have a groove for the femora, but encyrtids lack this groove (as do the signiphorids, tanaostigmatids, some aphelinids, and some eupelmids).2005, Norman F. Johnson, Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects, page 531

Questions about encyrtids

What is encyrtids the plural of?
Encyrtids is the plural of encyrtid.

Words near encyrtids in the dictionary

  1. encyclopædists
  2. encyclopædiæ
  3. encycs
  4. encycs.
  5. encyrtid
  6. encyrtids
  7. encyrtiform
  8. encyst
  9. encystation
  10. encystations
  11. encysted

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