Definition of Meloids

1. meloid [n] - See also: meloid

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meloids

melodramatizations
melodramatize
melodramatized
melodramatizes
melodramatizing
melodrame
melodrames
melody
melody pipe
melodyless
melodylike
meloe
melograph
melographs
meloid
meloids (current term)
melolonthid beetle
melolonthidian
melomakarona
melomania
melomaniac
melomaniacs
melomelia
melon
melon-headed
melon-seed body
melon ball
melon ball scooper
melon ball scoopers

Literary usage of Meloids

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

1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1881)
"... partial parasites on the pollen-paste stored up by the same, as in the case of the larvae of some of the meloids, does not seem to have been observed. ..."

2. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1895)
"37-40; and a paper treating of the blister-beetles or meloids of New Mexico and Arizona, in " Psyche," 1894, p. 100-102. The species mentioned in the former ..."

3. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1899)
"... and they also have very peculiar wing-cases, one of the two overlapping the other at the base; in a few meloids the wing - cases are merely rudiments. ..."

4. Field Book of Insects: With Special Reference to Those of Northeastern by Frank Eugene Lutz (1918)
"... and they also have very peculiar wing-cases, one of the two overlapping the other at the base; in a few meloids the wing-cases are merely rudiments. ..."

5. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1894)
"Notes on some meloids, or blister beetles, of New Mexico and Arizona, CHT Townsend. A preliminary list of the ..."

6. Bibliography of the More Important Contributions to American Economic Entomology by United States Bureau of Entomology, Nathan Banks, Samuel Henshaw (1895)
"Habits, characters, injuries, and enemies of Doryphora 10-lineata; f,gures of all stages and of several adult meloids ; figures several enemies of the ..."

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