Definition of Cyamus

1. Noun. Whale lice.

Exact synonyms: Genus Cyamus
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Amphipoda, Order Amphipoda
Member holonyms: Whale Louse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyamus

Cuthbertson
Cutler
Cutsahnim
Cutterman
Cuvier
Cuvier's ducts
Cuvier's veins
Cuyonon
Cuzco
Cwm Silicon
Cwmbran
Cy Young
Cyamopsis
Cyamopsis psoraloides
Cyamopsis tetragonolobus
Cyamus (current term)
Cyanobacteria
Cyanocitta
Cyanocitta cristata
Cyanophyceae
Cyanophyta
Cyathea
Cyathea medullaris
Cyatheaceae
Cyathostoma
Cyathostomum
Cybele
Cyber Monday
Cyberia
Cybil

Literary usage of Cyamus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphipodous Crustacea in the Collection of the by Charles Spence Bate (1862)
"BM Cyamus abbreviate, Say, Jouen. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. ip 393. Cephalon and first joint of the ..."

2. List of the Specimens of the British Animals in the Collection of the by John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray, Adam White, British Museum (Natural History), James Francis Stephens, Frederick Smith, Henry Denny, Henry Tibbats Stainton, Edwin Shepherd (1848)
"Cyamus CETI. Common Whale-louse. 23 ; M. Edw. Crust. iii. p. 113. Oniscus ceti, Linn. Syst. ... Cyamus gracilis, Rouss. Ann. Sc. Nat. 2nd. str. it 8, f. ..."

3. Manual of the Natural History, Geology, and Physics of Greenland, and the by Thomas Rupert Jones, Great Britain Admiralty (1875)
"Cyamus ceti, Kroyer, Nat. Tidsskr., IV., p. 476, t. 5, f. 63-70 ; Sp. Bate, ... Lutken, 1. c., p. 274, t. 4, f. 8. Obs.—~With the preceding. 128. Cyamus ..."

4. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1839)
"Latreille brought the forms under one genus, Cyamus, with the following subdivisions and ... form the subgenus Cyamus, Latr. ..."

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