Definition of Genus cyamus

1. Noun. Whale lice.

Exact synonyms: Cyamus
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Amphipoda, Order Amphipoda
Member holonyms: Whale Louse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Cyamus

genus Cuculus
genus Cucumis
genus Cucurbita
genus Culcita
genus Culex
genus Cuminum
genus Cuniculus
genus Cuon
genus Cupressus
genus Curcuma
genus Cursorius
genus Curtisia
genus Cuscuta
genus Cuterebra
genus Cyamopsis
genus Cyamus
genus Cyanocitta
genus Cyathea
genus Cycas
genus Cyclamen
genus Cycloloma
genus Cyclopes
genus Cyclophorus
genus Cyclops
genus Cyclopterus
genus Cyclosorus
genus Cycnoches
genus Cydonia
genus Cygnus
genus Cymbidium

Literary usage of Genus cyamus

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

1. A History of the British Sessile-eyed Crustacea by Charles Spence Bate, John Obadiah Westwood (1868)
"With the Amphipoda the Isopoda are closely connected through the aberrant families of each order. In the genus Cyamus the lowest form of Amphipod with which ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1835)
"... almost, if not quite amounting to metamorphosis, taking place in several genera of the Crustacea Iso- poda, in one genus (Cyamus, Latr. ..."

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