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Definition of Elytroid
1. a. Resembling a beetle's wing case.
Definition of Elytroid
1. Adjective. (zoology) Resembling a beetle's wingcase. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Elytroid
1. elytron [adj] - See also: elytron
Medical Definition of Elytroid
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Elytroid
Literary usage of Elytroid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Medical Recorder (1850)
"... introduced into the vagina as a medicated elytroid pessary. It does not
inconveniently distend the vaginal walls, which it tends to strengthen, ..."
2. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"25 as (28) Gills present on the seventh abdominal segment, elytroid on the third
or fourth segment; ... 29 29 (30) elytroid gill cover subquadrate Caenis. ..."
3. Bulletin by University of the State of New York (1905)
"... ee Gills absent from one or more of segments 1-7; one pair more or less elytroid,
... it / Gills present on the seventh abdominal segment, elytroid ..."
4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1847)
"I believe it to be in every respect the representative of the singular elytroid
dorsal appendages to the thorax in Antho- soma, Cecrops, and certain other ..."
5. Baltimore Medical and Surgical Journal and Review edited by Eli Geddings (1833)
"Jules Cloquet has employed with much advantage, a pessary constructed upon this
principle, which he denominates elytroid. It is somewhat flattened and ..."
6. Woman; Her Diseases and Remedies: A Series of Letters to His Class by Charles Delucena Meigs (1851)
"You cannot sustain them with a globe, a disc, or an elytroid pessary which will
not be retained, but you can always keep the prolapsed parts high up within ..."
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