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pythid

pythid noun: any beetle of the family Pythidae.

pythid: any beetle of the family Pythidae
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Noun

pythid (plural pythids)

  1. Any beetle of the family Pythidae.
    • Sphalma quadricollis was originally described as a pythid by Horn (1872), contrary to Watt (1987) who states that S. quadricollis was originally placed in Melandryidae.1990, Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, numbers 151-155, page 5
    • When the lower lethal temperatures of the chrysomelid beetle Phyllodecta laticollis or of the pythid beetle Pytho depressus is plotted against the concentrations of solutes in their hemolymph, a steep regression line appears.1999, L. Somme, “Cold adaptations in terrestrial invertebrates”, in Rosa Margesin, Franz Schinner, editors, Cold-Adapted Organisms: Ecology, Physiology, Enzymology and Molecular Biology, page 151

Forms of pythid

pluralpythids

Questions about pythid

What does pythid mean?
Pythid means any beetle of the family Pythidae.
What part of speech is pythid?
Pythid is a noun.
What is the plural of pythid?
The plural of pythid is pythids.

Words near pythid in the dictionary

  1. Pythians
  2. Pythias
  3. Pythiast
  4. Pythiasts
  5. Pythic
  6. pythid
  7. pythids
  8. Pythion
  9. pythiosis
  10. Pythium
  11. pythocholic acid

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