Blattoid

Quick meaning: Blattoid is a noun meaning (entomology) Any member of the Blattoidea superfamily of cockroaches and termites.

Meaning

(entomology) Any member of the Blattoidea superfamily of cockroaches and termites.

More Meanings

1. Relating to the Blattoidea, comprised of cockroaches and termites.

Example Sentences

This result, however, is much younger than some “roachoid” fossils and clearly invalidates the hypothesis suggesting that winged “blattoids” would date back to the Devonian.

However, a subgroup analysis (by order) indicated that the DGC facilitated gaseous exchange in dipterans (0.43 ± 0.34; estimate ± 95% CI; p = 0.01), but not in blattoids (p = 0.89) or orthopterans (p = 0.57) (Figure 5a).

The most parsimonious scenario of the origin of this pattern would be an ancient duplication of the ancestral FAD-A1 and subsequent conservation of its paralogous copy during diversification of blattoid cockroaches and termites.

This age is congruent with the presence of “blattoid” ootheca in the Late Carboniferous, suggesting that Dictyoptera with reduced ovipositors were already present at that time, coexisting with “roachoids” with long external ovipositors.

Word Forms

• blattoids

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blatted, fungoid, blazar, blobby, globoid, blastoma.

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