sarcophagan
sarcophagan noun: any fly of the genus Sarcophaga.
Noun
sarcophagan (plural sarcophagans)
- Any fly of the genus Sarcophaga.
- In the Sarcophagans, or flesh-eaters, as the name implies, the bristles on the antennæ are feathered.1841, Thaddeus William Harris, A Report on the Insects of Massachusetts: Injurious to Vegetation, volume 3, page 412
- This could prove a very important experiment: our difficulty is that there is no precise homology between the sarcophagan cuticle and that of other orders of insect; from the work of Wolfe (1954) and Dennell (1946) the dipteran epicuticle cannot be treated as having separate laminae of cuticulin...1964, Advances in Insect Physiology, volume 2
Examples of sarcophagan in a sentence
- Other insects, including a sarcophagan fly, a gnat, a sciarid fly, and two harmless mosquitoes dwell in the pitchers.1968, Journal of the Arnold Arboretum, page 155:
- See Chapters 2–5, and reduce the number of your Drosophila dissections to Sarcophagan levels!2004, Daryl S. Henderson, Drosophila Cytogenetics Protocols, page 4:
Forms of sarcophagan
| plural | sarcophagans |
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Origin of sarcophagan
Sarcophaga + -an
Questions about sarcophagan
- What does sarcophagan mean?
- Sarcophagan means any fly of the genus Sarcophaga.
- How do you use sarcophagan in a sentence?
- Other insects, including a sarcophagan fly, a gnat, a sciarid fly, and two harmless mosquitoes dwell in the pitchers.
- What part of speech is sarcophagan?
- Sarcophagan is a noun.
- What is the plural of sarcophagan?
- The plural of sarcophagan is sarcophagans.
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