Definitions for meloid

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IPA: /ˈmɛl ɔɪd/

Meloid is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in meloid (deilmo).

Definitions for meloid

noun

  1. a beetle of the family Meloidae, comprising the blister beetles.

adjective

  1. belonging or pertaining to the family Meloidae.

Origin of meloid

1875-80; New Latin Meloidae name of the family, equivalent to Melo(ē) type genus + -idae -id2

Examples for meloid

Scarabidoid: applied to that stage of a meloid larva in which it resembles a white grub or Scarabid larva.

This is indeed a meloid, a true meloid, one of the strangest anomalies among the parasites of its tribe.

And behold, the law of the meloid has to be struck off the statutes, a fate common to many others, as this chapter will prove.

Carabidoid: applied to the second stage of a meloid larva, when it resembles that of a Carabid.

The meloid seems to be revolving in a circle: it undoes what it has just done, it draws back after advancing.

I was therefore firmly convinced that the parasite of the Mantis-hunters could only be a meloid.

I really had before my eyes the pseudochrysalis of some meloid.

Two Zonites, both visitors of the eryngo-heads during the heats of summer, are among the meloid of my part of the country.

The primary larva of this meloid is still unknown, so far as I am aware; and I shall describe it in detail.

The first hatching, that of the normal egg, makes the meloid go through the larval dimorphism of the Anthrax and the Leucospis.

Word Value for meloid
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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