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tephritoids

tephritoids is the plural of tephritoid.

Meaning of tephritoid

Noun

tephritoid (plural tephritoids)

  1. Any fly of the superfamily Tephritoidea.
    • Section I provides reviews of the phylogeny of the Superfamily Tephritoidea (Chapter 1 by Korneyev), the behavior of fly relatives (tephritoids) of the Tephritidae (Chapter 2 by Sivinski), and the history of studies on tephritids including many of the World’s most important Genera of economic...2002 June, Pauline O. Lawrence, “Book Reviews”, in Florida Entomologist, volume 85, number 2, archived from the original on 29 Oct 2019, page 398

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Questions about tephritoids

What is tephritoids the plural of?
Tephritoids is the plural of tephritoid.

Words near tephritoids in the dictionary

  1. tephrites
  2. tephritic
  3. tephritid
  4. tephritids
  5. tephritoid
  6. tephritoids
  7. tephro-
  8. tephrochronological
  9. tephrochronologically
  10. tephrochronologist
  11. tephrochronologists

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