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Definition of Cypris
1. n. A genus of small, bivalve, fresh-water Crustacea, belonging to the Ostracoda; also, a member of this genus.
Definition of Cypris
1. a type of barnacle [n CYPRIDES] - See also: barnacle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cypris
Literary usage of Cypris
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eúgen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"By the fourth moult the free cypris stage (Fig. 107 B) is reached. ... The cypris
stage in which, as in the former stages, there is no trace of an ..."
2. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"Abundant in small weedy ponds and canal basins. Ohio. cypris ... Subgenus cypris .
. 64 63 (62) Furca abnormal, the terminal seta missing (Fig. ..."
3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Behold how cypris with a fond caress Beguiling for her minion race of Troy Some
long-robed Argive to desert her home 510 Hath scratch'd against the broach ..."
4. On Molecular and Microscopic Science by Mary Somerville (1869)
"The genus cypris belongs to this group. Several species may be seen swimming ...
The body of the common cypris (fig. 151) is enclosed between two flat oval ..."
5. Aids in Practical Geology by Grenville Arthur James Cole (1902)
"cypris (fig. 124, a).—Shell small, partly horny, and thin. ... Like cypris, but
shell bearing a little beak-like process, with a notch behind it, ..."
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