cyamid

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From family name Cyamidae.

Noun[edit]

cyamid (plural cyamids)

  1. (zoology) A crustacean of the family Cyamidae; a whale louse.
    • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 271:
      These are callosities: roughened skin caused by infestations of what ‘lice’ (which are actually parasitic crustaceans called cyamids less than an inch long that feed on flakes of skin).
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