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Definition of Phasmids
1. phasmid [n] - See also: phasmid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phasmids
Literary usage of Phasmids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Evolution Theory by August Weismann (1904)
"This naturalist observed that the phasmids not infrequently perished at one ...
Of 100 phasmids nine died in this way, twenty-two got free with the loss of ..."
2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1916)
"Five Orthoptera, New Jersey; seven Lepidoptera, California. UNITED STATES NATIONAL
MUSEUM. Three phasmids, Tropical America. HB WEISS. ..."
3. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1916)
"... as a whole, are more primitive than the phasmids. ... line of development
parallels, or converges toward that of the phasmids, and both lead back to the ..."
4. Convergence in Evolution by Arthur Willey (1911)
"... of course not followed by a corresponding act of regeneration, such as follows
upon the autotomy of the legs of immature phasmids; mature male phasmids, ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1902)
"... especially of forms allied to the cuckoos, some species of which are very
common in the jungle of Lower Siam, are often filled with phasmids. ..."
6. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1902)
"In the buffalo lawns of the plains of the Malay Peninsula, phasmids are not
plentiful, or, at any rate, are not often ..."
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