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Definition of Forficula
1. Noun. Type genus of Forficulidae.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Forficulidae, Forficulidae
Member holonyms: Common European Earwig, Forficula Auricularia
Definition of Forficula
1. n. A genus of insects including the earwigs. See Earwig, 1.
Medical Definition of Forficula
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Forficula
Literary usage of Forficula
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1898)
"forficula ... 49), I recorded and figured a male of what was then considered a
rare British earwig, forficula ..."
2. The Cell in Development and Inheritance by Edmund Beecher Wilson (1897)
"... during its ovarian his- forficula, showing eggs and nurse-cells. [KORSCHELT.]
insects, as in both the nurse-cell («) with its enormous branching nucleus ..."
3. The Entertaining Naturalist: Being Popular Descriptions, Tales, and by Loudon (Jane) (1850)
"There is also a kind of tongue, and the metamorphosis is only half complete.
THE EARWIG. (forficula auricularia.) UNLIKE those of most other insects the ..."
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