Definition of Scolecids

1. scolecid [n] - See also: scolecid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scolecids

scoinson arch
scoinsons
scoke
scold
scolded
scolder
scolders
scolding
scoldingly
scoldings
scolds
scoleces
scoleciasis
scolecid
scolecida
scolecids (current term)
scoleciform
scolecite
scolecites
scolecoid
scolecology
scolecomorpha
scolex
scolexes
scolia
scolices
scolie
scolies
scoliokyphosis
scolioma

Literary usage of Scolecids

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

1. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"From this condition it appears in the scolecids to become more and more rudimentary, till in the parasitic worms it totally disappears. ..."

2. The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Rev. with by Selim Hobart Peabody, Charles Francis Richardson (1898)
"These grounds of difference outweigh, in his opinion, the many points of resemblance between the annelids and the scolecids—as (1) the resemblance between ..."

3. Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and (1880)
"These grounds of difference outweigh, in his opinion, the many points of resemblance between the annelids and the scolecids—as (1) the resemblance between ..."

4. An Introduction to the Classification of Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1869)
"On the other hand, there is much resemblance between the ciliated larvae of some scolecids and Echinoderms, and those of Annelids; and the form of the body ..."

5. Lectures on the Elements of Comparative Anatomy by Thomas Henry Huxley (1864)
"vessels which attains so large a development as the " water- vascular " apparatus in many scolecids. Whatever value may be attached to these resemblances, ..."

6. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"These are the sole remains )f scolecids which have hitherto been detected, and it is there- ore unnecessary here to deal further with this division of the ..."

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