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pulicid

pulicid noun: any flea of the family Pulicidae.

pulicid: any flea of the family Pulicidae
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Noun

pulicid (plural pulicids)

  1. Any flea of the family Pulicidae.
    • We do not question the corollaries of Jordan's postulate, namely that vermipsyllid fleas never had ctenidia whereas comb-less pulicids and hystrichopsyllids are the descendants of comb-bearing fleas (Holland 1959).1967, Bernice P. Bishop Museum Entomology Department, Pacific Insects, page 643
    • These introduced pulicid fleas are cosmopolitan, having also been introduced by human transport to all continents except Antarctica (Lewis 1995).2001, Diego P. Vázquez, Daniel Simberloff, “Chapter 6: Taxonomic Selectivity in Surviving Introduced Insects in the United States”, in Julie L. Lockwood, Michael L. McKinney, editors, Biotic...

Forms of pulicid

pluralpulicids

Questions about pulicid

What does pulicid mean?
Pulicid means any flea of the family Pulicidae.
What part of speech is pulicid?
Pulicid is a noun.
What is the plural of pulicid?
The plural of pulicid is pulicids.

Words near pulicid in the dictionary

  1. Pulice
  2. pulicene
  3. Pulices
  4. pulicicide
  5. pulicicides
  6. pulicid
  7. pulicidal
  8. pulicide
  9. pulicides
  10. pulicids
  11. pulicine

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