Definition of Dytiscid

1. a carnivorous water beetle [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dytiscid

dystrophy
dystropy
dysuria
dysurias
dysuric
dysuries
dysury
dysversion
dysynchronies
dysynchrony
dysynergia
dysæmia
dysæmic
dysæsthesia
dysæsthesiæ
dytiscid (current term)
dytiscids
dyun
dyvour
dyvouries
dyvours
dyvoury
dzeren
dzerens
dzeron
dzhalindite
dzharkenite
dzhigit
dzhigits
dzho

Literary usage of Dytiscid

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

1. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1915)
"Six were placed in each cage with some enemy, such as Anax or a dytiscid larva. ... 1 1 1 dytiscid larva Horned dace .. Myriophyllum I Anax junius. ..."

2. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"JT] OTES ON COLLECTING, Etc. dytiscid LARVAE AS FOOD IN BURMA.—The Deputy Commissioner of Lower Chindwin Dist., Monywa, Burma, recently sent the Indian ..."

3. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"In the present state of our knowledge, it is not possible to give keys that will determine genera of dytiscid larvae, and the best means of identifying ..."

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