Definition of Family Gyrinidae

1. Noun. Whirligig beetles.

Exact synonyms: Gyrinidae
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Coleoptera, Order Coleoptera
Member holonyms: Whirligig Beetle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Gyrinidae

family Globigerinidae
family Glossinidae
family Gnetaceae
family Gobiesocidae
family Gobiidae
family Gomphotheriidae
family Gonorhynchidae
family Goodeniaceae
family Gracilariidae
family Graminaceae
family Gramineae
family Grossulariaceae
family Gruidae
family Gryllidae
family Guttiferae
family Gyrinidae (current term)
family Hadrosauridae
family Haematopodidae
family Haemodoraceae
family Haemoproteidae
family Haemulidae
family Halictidae
family Haliotidae
family Haloragaceae
family Haloragidaceae
family Hamamelidaceae
family Helicidae
family Helodermatidae
family Helotiaceae
family Helvellaceae

Literary usage of Family Gyrinidae

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

1. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"3 Hind legs shorter than the fore; eyes four, two above and two on the under surface of the head. . . . Family GYRINIDAE . ..."

2. Injurious and Useful Insects: An Introduction to the Study of Economic by Louis Compton Miall (1902)
"family Gyrinidae (whirligig-beetles). Feelers short. The compound eyes divided into two pairs unlike in structure. Middle and hind legs short, ..."

3. Insect Life: An Introduction to Nature-study and a Guide for Teachers by John Henry Comstock (1901)
"The various kinds of beetles taken together constitute the order Coleoptera, and the whirligig- beetles form the family Gyrinidae of this order. ..."

4. Entomology, with Special Reference to Its Ecological Aspects by Justus Watson Folsom (1922)
"... their outline varies greatly; thus it may be oval (Orthoptera) or triangular (Notonecta), while in the aquatic beetles of the family Gyrinidae (Fig. ..."

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