Cimicoid

Quick meaning: Cimicoid is an adjective meaning (biology, entomology) Resembling or being a member of the Cimicidae; buglike.

Meaning

(biology, entomology) Resembling or being a member of the Cimicidae; buglike.

Example Sentences

The group appears to have a blend of both reduvioid and cimicoid features and is probably an early offshoot of the ancestral heteropteran stock.

During the course of evolution of carnivorous reduviids from the saprophagous Cimicoid stock, the rostrum might have undergone reduction in four to three segments and shortening of segments.

As in Scantius, all the immature stages have two-segmented tarsi, but the nymphs are quite different in other respects as they are more cimicoid in outline, paler in colour and the ostioles of the repugnatorial glands are represented by three larger blackish patches.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include entomoid, insectoidal, insectiform, mycetoid, cynipoid, cymoid.

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