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lycid

lycid noun: any member of the Lycidae.

Noun

lycid (plural lycids)

  1. Any member of the Lycidae.
    • For an instant I thought it was a lycid, but it moved characteristically like a longhorned beetle, and I quickly realized that I had collected Elytroleptus floridanus—a quite rare southeastern U.S. species that I have only seen once before when I reared a single individual from dead oak that I...2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae

Synonyms of lycid

Forms of lycid

plurallycids

Questions about lycid

What does lycid mean?
Lycid means any member of the Lycidae.
What part of speech is lycid?
Lycid is a noun.
What is the plural of lycid?
The plural of lycid is lycids.

Words near lycid in the dictionary

  1. lychway
  2. lychways
  3. Lycia
  4. Lycian
  5. Lycians
  6. lycid
  7. lycids
  8. lycine
  9. Lycksele
  10. lyco-
  11. lycoctonine

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