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Definition of Genus Cyamus
1. Noun. Whale lice.
Exact synonyms: Cyamus
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Amphipoda, Order Amphipoda
Member holonyms: Whale Louse
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Amphipoda, Order Amphipoda
Member holonyms: Whale Louse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Cyamus
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. ..."