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Definition of Ostracods
1. ostracod [n] - See also: ostracod
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ostracods
Literary usage of Ostracods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Food of the Fishes of Winona Lake by Willis DeRyke, Will Scott (1922)
"8 Chironomus larvae; 4 ostracods; mass of plant tissue. ... 9 Chironomus larvae;
3 ostracods; rest of contents consists of algae, diatoms and small pieces ..."
2. Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society by Manchester Geological Society (1892)
"The Bivalves are dwarfed and stunted. The bottom bed is formed of purple, and
very bent clays, yielding ostracods and fragments of very thin and fragile A ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1858)
"In case it may be thought that the ostracods were descended from those that may
have been introduced before the supply of the Loch Thorn water was shut off, ..."
4. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1894)
"Such is Mr MacLean's account of this interesting example of the apparently erratic
distribution of these ostracods. In case it may be thought that the ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"... it does not disdain to feed upon small insects that fall into the water,
obtains its main supply from the little crustacean formi such as ostracods and ..."
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