Definition of Nematodes

1. Noun. (plural of nematode) ¹

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Definition of Nematodes

1. nematode [n] - See also: nematode

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nematodes

nematoblasts
nematocalyces
nematocalyx
nematocera
nematocidal
nematocide
nematocides
nematocyst
nematocysts
nematocyte
nematoda
nematode
nematode infections
nematode worm
nematodes (current term)
nematodiasis
nematodynamic
nematodynamics
nematogen
nematogene
nematogenes
nematogenic
nematogens
nematognath
nematognathi
nematognaths
nematoid
nematoidea
nematoidean

Literary usage of Nematodes

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

1. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"CHAPTER XV FREE-LIVING nematodes Bv NA COBB US Department of A ... This type of movement identifies them as nematodes; it differs from that of other small ..."

2. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1908)
"In such nematodes the percentage of supplemental males though low was markedly higher than in ... Free-living nematodes, of the two genera mentioned before, ..."

3. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"nematodes are as a rule elongated round worms of a filiform or fusiform shape ; their length ... Some nematodes live free in fresh or salt water, in soil, ..."

4. Biological Control of Insects and Mites: An Introduction to Beneficial by Daniel L. Mahr, Nino M. Ridgway (1993)
"Generally, nematodes that parasitize insects are not parasitic on plants or on ... Approximately 20 families of nematodes have insect-parasitic species. ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"Chick 128A, examined twenty-nine days after feeding, two nematodes in the ... The six remaining chicks and the three controls were free from nematodes. ..."

6. Sanitary entomology: The Entomology of Disease, Hygiene and Sanitation by William Dwight Pierce (1921)
"In the following discussion, in addition to the nematodes parasitic in man ... Stein in 1852 recorded the presence of encysted nematodes in the larva? of ..."

7. Vegetable Forcing by Ralph Levi Watts (1917)
"nematodes are widely distributed throughout the temperate and tropical ... More than 500 kinds of plants are said to be subject to the attack of nematodes. ..."

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