endothiodontid

(zoology) Any therapsid in the family Endothiodontidae.


endromid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Endromidae.


engonoceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Engonoceratidae.


engraulid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Engraulidae; an anchovy.


engraulidid

(zoology) Alternative spelling of engraulid.


enicocephalid

(entomology) Any member of the family Enicocephalidae, the unique-headed bugs or gnat bugs.


enoplometopid

(zoology) Any lobster-like crustacean in the family Enoplometopidae.


enoploteuthid

(zoology) Any squid in the family Enoploteuthidae.


entamoebid

(zoology) Any member of the Entamoebidae.


entoliid

(zoology) Any clam in the family Entoliidae.


entomobryid

(zoology) Any springtail of the family Entomobryidae.


entoniscid

(zoology) Any isopod in the family Entoniscidae.


entonyssid

(zoology) Any mite in the family Entonyssidae.


eobaatarid

(zoology) Any extinct multituberculate mammal in the family Eobaataridae.


eocardiid

(zoology) Any extinct rodent in the family Eocardiidae.


eoderoceratid

(zoology) Any member of the Eoderoceratidae.


eogyrinid

(zoology) Any labyrinthodont in the family Eogyrinidae.


eomoropid

(zoology) Any extinct odd-toed ungulate in the family Eomoropidae.


eomyid

(zoology) Any extinct rodent in the family Eomyidae.


eophliantid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Eophliantidae.


eophrynid

(zoology) Any extinct arachnid in the family Eophrynidae.


eosentomid

(zoology) Any proturan in the family Eosentomidae.


eosimiid

(zoology) Any extinct primate in the family Eosimiidae.


eothyridid

(zoology) Any tetrapod in the family Eothyrididae.


eotomariid

(zoology) Any member of the gastropod family Eotomariidae.


enid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Enidae.


epermeniid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Epermeniidae.


ephippid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Ephippidae.


ephydrid

The ephydrids are especially prominent around inland salt and alkaline ponds and marshes and thermal and mineral springs.

1956, Robert Leslie Usinger, editor, Aquatic Insects of California, page 462:

A number of studies have been conducted on the abundance and distribution of numerous ephydrids, including Parydra in various habitats or on various substrates.

1985, Transactions of the American Entomological Society, page 362:

Another interesting example is ephydrids that colonize wood that has been heavily contaminated with human urine in ancient European buildings.

2013, Jill Lancaster, Barbara J. Downes, Aquatic Entomology, page 34:

(zoology) Any species of the shore fly family Ephydridae.


epicriid

(zoology) Any mite in the family Epicriidae.


epidendroid

/ˌɛpɪˈdɛndɹɔɪd/

(zoology) Any orchid in the subfamily Epidendroideae.


epidermoptid

(zoology) Any mite in the family Epidermoptidae.


epigonid

deepwater cardinalfishes
deepwater cardinalfish#English

(zoology) Any member of the family Epigonidae: the deepwater cardinalfishes.


epimeriid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Epimeriidae.


epipsocid

(zoology) Any barklouse in the family Epipsocidae.


epipyropid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Epipyropidae.


epitoniid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Epitoniidae; a wentletrap.


epizoanthid

(zoology) Any cnidarian in the family Epizoanthidae.


epoicotheriid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Epoicotheriidae.


equisetid

(botany) Any plant in the subclass Equisetidae; a horsetail.


erebid

(zoology) Any member of the family Erebidae of moths.


eremiaphilid

(zoology) Any mantis in the family Eremiaphilidae.


eremobatid

(zoology) Any arachnid in the family Eremobatidae.


eresid

(zoology) Any member of the family Eresidae of velvet spiders.


erethistid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Erethistidae.


erethizontid

Erethizontids are primarily herbivorous.[…]With their elaborate courtship behavior, the erethizontids are a fascinating group of mammals.

1987, Joseph F. Merritt, Guide to the Mammals of Pennsylvan, page 235:

The erethizontids, with four genera (including eight species) achieved their greatest known diversity, representing 22% of the total diversity.

2010, M. G. Vucetich, A. G. Kramarz, A. M. Candela, “14: Colhuehuapian rodents from Gran Barranca and other Patagonian localities: the state of the art”, in Richard H. Madden, editor, The Paleontology of Gran Barranca, page 212:

Erethizontids inhabit a broad variety of habitats, from tundra to the tropics and from dense forests to open settings.

2010, Peter S. Ungar, Mammal Teeth: Origin, Evolution, and Diversity, page 212:

(zoology) Any of the New World porcupines comprising the family Erethizontidae.


ergasilid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Ergasilidae.


erinaceid

(zoology) Any mammal in the family Erinaceidae, the hedgehogs, gymnures and moonrats.


eriococcid

(zoology) Any scale insect in the family Eriococcidae.


eriocraniid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Eriocraniidae.


eriophyid

(zoology) Any mite in the family Eriophyidae.


eriosomatid

(zoology) Any aphid in the family Eriosomatidae, now considered to be the subfamily Eriosomatinae.


eriphiid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Eriphiidae.


erotylid

pleasing fungus beetle
pleasing fungus beetle

(entomology) Any member of the Erotylidae family of insects; a pleasing fungus beetle.


erpobdellid

(zoology) Any leech of the family Erpobdellidae.


erycid

(zoology) Any snake in the family Erycidae, now considered to be the boid subfamily Erycinae.


erycinid

(zoology) Any butterfly in the former family Erycinidae, which was found to contain species better classified as belong to two families, the Riodinidae and the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae.


erymid

(zoology) Any extinct crustacean in the family Erymidae.


eryonid

(zoology) Any extinct crustacean in the family Eryonidae.


eryopid

(zoology) Any extinct amphibian of the family †Eryopidae


erythraeid

(zoology) Any mite in the family Erythraeidae.


erythrinid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Erythrinidae.


sorediferous

en-adj

sorediferous (comparative more sorediferous, superlative most sorediferous)

more sorediferous (comparative)
most sorediferous (superlative)
sorediiferous (alternative)


heterochronism

en-noun

heterochronism (countable and uncountable, plural heterochronisms)


cardioblast

(biology) An embryonic cell, in some insects, that develops into the heart


diglucuronide

(biochemistry) Any compound containing two glucuronide groups


encapsidate

en-verb

encapsidate (third-person singular simple present encapsidates, present participle encapsidating, simple past and past participle encapsidated)

encapsidates (present singular third-person)
encapsidating (participle present)
encapsidated (participle past)
encapsidated (past)

From en- + capsid + -ate (verb-forming suffix).


erythrosuchid

(zoology) Any archosaur in the family Erythrosuchidae.


eschrichtiid

(zoology) Any member of the family Eschrichtiidae of gray whales.


esocid

(zoology) Any fish of the family Esocidae, the pikes


estemmenosuchid

(zoology) Any therapsid in the family Estemmenosuchidae.


etheriid

(zoology) Any freshwater mussel in the family Etheriidae.


ethmiid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Ethmiidae.


etmopterid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Etmopteridae.


etyid

(zoology) Any extinct crab in the family Etyidae.


eublepharid

(zoology) Any lizard in the family Eublepharidae.


eubranchid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Eubranchidae.


eucharitid

(zoology) Any parasitic wasp in the family Eucharitidae.


eucinetid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Eucinetidae.


euconulid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Euconulidae.


eucosmodontid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Eucosmodontidae.


eudendriid

(zoology) Any hydroid in the family Eudendriidae.


eudrilid

(zoology) Any oligochaete worm in the family Eudrilidae.


euhelopid

(zoology) Any member of the Euhelopidae, a synonym of the Euhelopodidae.


euhelopodid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Euhelopodidae.


eulimid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Eulimidae.


eulophid

(zoology) Any parasitic wasp of the family Eulophidae.


eumolpid

From the family name Eumolpidae, which was named after the type genus, Eumolpus.

(zoology) Any beetle in the chrysomelid subfamily Eumolpinae.


eunicid

(zoology) Any polychaete worm of the family Eunicidae.

(zoology, more broadly) Any polychaete worm of the order Eunicida.


euomphalid

(zoology) Any extinct gastropod in the family Euomphalidae.


euparkeriid

(zoology) Any extinct reptile in the family Euparkeriidae.


eupelmid

In most chalcidoids, the mesopleura have a groove for the femora, but encyrtids lack this groove (as do the signiphorids, tanaostigmatids, some aphelinids, and some eupelmids).

2005, Norman F. Johnson, Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects, page 531:

(zoology) Any member of the family Eupelmidae of parasitic wasps.


euphaeid

(zoology) Any damselfly in the family Euphaeidae.


euphemitid

(zoology) Any extinct mollusk in the family Euphemitidae.


euphthiracarid

(zoology) Any mite in the family Euphthiracaridae.


euplerid

(zoology) Any member of the family Eupleridae, Malagasy carnivorans, cat-like mammals of Madagascar.


eupterotid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Eupterotidae.


eurhinodelphinid

(zoology) Any toothed whale in the family Eurhinodelphinidae.


eurybrachid

(zoology) Any planthopper in the family Eurybrachidae.


eurylaimid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Eurylaimidae; a broadbill.


euryleptid

(zoology) Any flatworm in the family Euryleptidae.


eurymylid

(zoology) Any extinct rodent in the family Eurymylidae.


eurypharyngid

Clipping of translingual Eurypharyngidae

clipping

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Eurypharyngidae</i>

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Eurypharyngidae, the pelican eels.


eurypygid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Eurypygidae; a sunbittern.


eurysquillid

(zoology) Any mantis shrimp of the family Eurysquillidae.


eurytomid

(zoology) Any parasitic wasp in the family Eurytomidae.


eusirid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Eusiridae.


eutrephoceratid

(zoology) Any extinct nautiloid cephalopod in the family Eutrephoceratidae, often considered to be part of the Nautilidae.


eutypomyid

(zoology) Any rodent in the family Eutypomyidae.


evaniid

(zoology) Any wasp in the family Evaniidae.


evermannellid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Evermannellidae, the sabertooth fishes.


eviphidid

(zoology) Any mite in the family Eviphididae.


exocoetid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Exocoetidae; a flying fish.


monoglucuronide

(biochemistry) Any compound containing a single glucuronide group


spondin

(biochemistry) Any of a group of proteins that are involved in axon guidance.


sterolin

(biochemistry) Either of two proteins (and associated genes) that regulate sterol absorption and excretion.


acutate

en-adj

acutate (comparative more acutate, superlative most acutate)

more acutate (comparative)
most acutate (superlative)

(botany) Slightly sharpened, as at the apex.


fabid

(botany) Any member of the eurosid clade known as the fabids


fabrosaurid

(zoology) Any ornithischian dinosaur in the family Fabrosauridae.


facelinid

(zoology) Any sea slug of the family Facelinidae.


falconid

(zoology) Any member of the Falconidae; a falcon or caracara.


fallotaspidid

(zoology) Any trilobite in the family Fallotaspididae.


fanniid

(zoology) Any fly of the family Fanniidae.


fasciolid

(zoology) Any trematode flatworm in the family Fasciolidae.


faviid

(zoology) Any coral in the family Faviidae.


fedrizziid

(zoology) Any mite in the family Fedrizziidae.


ferussaciid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Ferussaciidae.


ficid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Ficidae; a fig shell.


figitid

(zoology) Any parasitoid wasp in the family Figitidae.


filistatid

(zoology) Any spider in the family Filistatidae.


fimbriid

(zoology) Any clam in the family Fimbriidae.


fionid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Fionidae.


firolid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Firolidae.


fissurellid

(zoology) Any keyhole limpet in the family Fissurellidae.


fistulariid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Fistulariidae of cornetfishes.


flabellinid

(zoology) Any of the family Flabellinidae of sea slugs.


flatid

(zoology) Any insect in the family Flatidae.


flavivirid

(zoology) Any member of the Flaviviridae.


foratid

(zoology) Any extinct bird in the family Foratidae.


forficulid

(zoology) Any earwig in the family Forficulidae


formicariid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Formicariidae; an ant thrush.


fregatid

(zoology) Any member of the Fregatidae; a frigatebird.


fulgorid

(zoology) Any hemipteran of the family Fulgoridae


fundulid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Fundulidae.


furipterid

(zoology) Any bat in the family Furipteridae.


furnariid

(zoology) Any member of the Furnariidae; ovenbirds.


gadid

(zoology) Any member of the family Gadidae of fish such as cod and pollack.


gadilid

(zoology) Any tusk shell in the family Gadilidae.


gadiniid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Gadiniidae, a synonym of the Trimusculidae.


galagonid

(zoology) Any galago in the family Galagonidae.


galatheid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Galatheidae.


galbulid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Galbulidae; a jacamar.


galeommatid

(zoology) Any clam in the family Galeommatidae.


galeopithecid

(zoology) Any member of the family Galeopithecidae, now considered to be a synonym of the family Cynocephalidae, the colugos or flying lemurs.


galeorhinid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Galeorhinidae, now considered to be the triakid subfamily Galeorhininae.


galesaurid

(zoology) Any cynodont in the family Galesauridae.


gammarellid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Gammarellidae.


gammarid

(zoology) Any amphipod of the suborder Gammaridea.

(zoology, less common) Any amphipod of the family Gammaridae.


gasteropelecid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Gasteropelecidae.


gasterophilid

(zoology) Any botfly in the oestrid subfamily Gasterophilinae, formerly the family Gasterophilidae.


gasterosteid

(zoology) Any fish in the Gasterosteidae; a stickleback.


gasteruptiid

(zoology) Any parasitic wasp in the family Gasteruptiidae.


gasteruptionid

(zoology) Any wasp in the family Gasteruptionidae, a synonym of the Gasteruptiidae.


gastornithid

However, as the beaks lack hooks typical for carnivorous birds, and calcium isotopes in the bones do not support a meat-based diet (Angst et al., 2014), it is now assumed that gastornithids were herbivores.

2017 November 22, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:

(zoology) Any extinct bird in the family Gastornithidae.


gastrioceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Gastrioceratidae.


gastrochaenid

(zoology) Any clam in the family Gastrochaenidae.


gastrodelphyid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Gastrodelphyidae.


gastronyssid

(zoology) Any mite in the family Gastronyssidae.


gastropterid

(zoology) Any sluglike gastropod in the family Gastropteridae.


gaudryceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Gaudryceratidae.


gavialid

The gavialids, found in India, eat fish and have slender snouts.

1999, Patricia L. Barnes-Svarney, Thomas E. Svarney, The Oryx Guide to Natural History: The Earth and All Its Inhabitants, page 178:

Several genera of crocodiles, gavialids, and turtles evolved from Mesozoic stock.

2007, Thomas T. Veblen, Austin Kenneth R. Young, Antony R. Orme, The Physical Geography of South America, page 39:

The second was based on trees including Gavialis as the closest relative of Tomistoma, and two dates—the basal split within Crocodylia and the crocodylid–gavialid split—were estimated.

2009, Christopher A. Brochu, “Crocodylians (Crocodylia)”, in S. Blair Hedges, Sudhir Kumar, editors, The Timetree of Life, page 147:

(zoology) Any reptile of the family Gavialidae.


gaviid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Gaviidae; a loon or diver.


gazid

(zoology) gastropod in the family Gazidae, now known as the Margaritidae.


gecarcinid

(zoology) Any land crab of the family Gecarcinidae


gecarcinucid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Gecarcinucidae.


geisonoceratid

(zoology) Any extinct cephalopod in the family Geisonoceratidae.


gelastocorid

(entomology) Any member of the family Gelastocoridae, the toad bugs


gelechiid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Gelechiidae (twirler moths).


gempylid

He also placed Lepidocybium Gill 1862 as the sister group of all the other gempylids and trichiurids.

1998, The Museum, Contributions in Science, numbers 469-480, page 4:

The larvae most likely to be confused with trichiurids are paralepidids and gempylids.

2000, F. J. Gago, J. M. Leis, T. Trnski, “111: Trichiuridae”, in Jeffrey Martin Leis, Brooke M. Carson-Ewart, editors, The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes, page 704:

The gempylids, or snake mackerels, are a small group of predatory oceanic or pelagic fish.

2002, S. S. Deshpande, Handbook of Food Toxicology, page 696:

(zoology) Any fish of the escolar family, Gempylidae.


geodiid

(zoology) Any member of the family Geodiidae of sponges.


geoemydid

(zoology) Any member of the family Geoemydidae of turtles.


geomyid

Whereas geomyids seem to dominate the montane grassland, microtenes dominated the tallgrass, cricetines dominated the shortgrass and heteromyids dominated the desert grassland site.

1982, L. D. Harris, G. B. Bowman, “6: Vertebrate predator subsystem”, in A. I. Breymeyer, George M. van Dyne, editors, Grasslands, Systems Analysis and Man, page 595:

A second potential problem is the geomyids in their phylogeny are linked more closely to the sciurids than to the muroids, yet several authorities suggest the geomyids should be placed among the muroidomopha (e.g. Eisenberg, 1981).

1999, J. R. Speakman, “The Cost of Living: Field Metabolic Rates of Small Mammals”, in A. H. Fitter, D. G. Raffaelli, editors, Advances in Ecological Research, volume 30, page 226:

Compared with geomyids, little is known about the roles of other subterranean rodents in ecological succession.

2000, Guy N. Cameron, “Chapter Six: Community Ecology of Subterranean Rodents”, in Eileen A. Lacey, James L. Patton, Guy N. Cameron, editors, Life Underground: The Biology of Subterranean Rodents, page 244:

(zoology) Any gopher of the family Geomyidae.


geoplanid

(zoology) Any member of the Geoplanidae.


georissid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Georissidae.


georyssid

(zoology) Alternative form of georissid.


geotriid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Geotriidae.


geotrupid

(zoology) Any in the family Geotrupidae of earth-boring dung beetles.


gephyrostegid

(zoology) Any extinct reptile-like tetrapod in the family Gephyrostegidae.


gerreid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Gerreidae, the mojarras.


gerrhosaurid

/ˌdʒɛɹəˈsɔːɹɪd/

(zoology) Any member of the family Gerrhosauridae of plated lizards.


gerrid

However some gerrids, nepids and veliids are attacked by allantonematid nematodes and Burton (1963) found Wuchereria bancrofti (Cobb) in a bedbug, although this insect was not considered an intermediate host.

1975, George O. Poinar, Entomogenous Nematodes: A Manual and Host List of Insect-nematode Associations:

(entomology) Any member of the family Gerridae, the water striders.


geryonid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Geryonidae.


gibberichthyid

(zoology) Any member of the Gibberichthyidae.


gigantactinid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Gigantactinidae.


giganturid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Giganturidae, the telescopefish.


ginglymostomatid

(zoology) Any nurse shark of the family Ginglymostomatidae


ginkgoid

(zoology) Any gymnosperm in the subclass Ginkgoidae.


glaphyrid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Glaphyridae.


glaphyritid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Glaphyritidae.


glareolid

(ornithology) Any bird in the family Glareolidae, the coursers and pratincoles.


glaresid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Glaresidae.


glaucid

(zoology) Any nudibranch in the family Glaucidae.


glaucosomatid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Glaucosomatidae.


glomerid

(zoology) Any millipede in the family Glomeridae.


glossid

(zoology) Any clam in the family Glossidae.


glossiphoniid

(zoology) Any leech of the family Glossiphoniidae.


glossoscolecid

(zoology) Any earthworm of the family Glossoscolecidae.


glossosomatid

(zoology) Any caddis fly in the family Glossosomatidae.


glycymeridid

(zoology) Any mollusk in the family Glycymerididae.


glypheid

(zoology) Any lobsterlike crustacean in the family Glypheidae.


glyphipterigid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Glyphipterigidae.


glyptodontid

(zoology) Any of the family †Glyptodontidaeof extinct armadillos.


gnaphosid

(zoology) Any spider in the family Gnaphosidae; a ground spider.


gnathiid

(zoology) Any isopod in the family Gnathiidae.


gnathophyllid

(zoology) Any shrimp in the family Gnathophyllidae.


gnathorhizid

(zoology) Any extinct lungfish in the family Gnathorhizidae.


gobiconodontid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Gobiconodontidae.


gobiesocid

(zoology) Any fish of the family Gobiesocidae of clingfish.


gobiid

(zoology) Any member of the family Gobiidae, the gobies.


golfingiid

(zoology) Any sipunculan worm of the family Golfingiidae.


gomphid

(zoology) Any dragonfly in the family Gomphidae.


gomphotherid

(zoology) Any extinct elephant-like mammal in the family Gomphotheridae.


gomphotheriid

(zoology) Any extinct elephant-like mammal in the family Gomphotheriidae.


gonatid

(zoology) Any member of the family Gonatidae of armhook squids.


goneplacid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Goneplacidae.


goniasterid

(zoology) Any starfish in the family Goniasteridae


goniatitid

/ˌɡəʊniəˈtaɪtɪd/

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Goniatitidae.


goniodoridid

(malacology) Any sea slug in the family Goniodorididae.


gonioloboceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Gonioloboceratidae.


goniopholid

(zoology) Any extinct crocodylomorph in the family Goniopholidae.


goniopholidid

(zoology) Any extinct reptile in the family Goniopholididae, related to the crocodilians.


gonodactylid

(zoology) Any mantis shrimp in the family Gonodactylidae.


gonorynchid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Gonorynchidae; a beaked salmon.


gonostomatid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Gonostomatidae.


gonyleptid

(zoology) Any harvestman of the family Gonyleptidae.


goodeid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Goodeidae, the splitfins.


gorgoniid

(zoology) Any soft coral in the family Gorgoniidae


gorgonocephalid

(zoology) Any basket star in the family Gorgonocephalidae.


gracillariid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Gracillariidae.


gradungulid

(zoology) Any spider of the family Gradungulidae.


grallinid

(zoology, dated) Any member of the former family Grallinidae of passerine birds.


grammatid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Grammatidae.


grammicolepidid

1956, Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, Volume 7, Division of Systematic Biology, Stanford University, page 91,
However, the peculiar Grammicolepididae may be rather closely allied to the Oreosomatidae, and the spikes or hooks seen on the sides of some grammicolepidids (see especially Barnard, 1940, p. 11 and plate, on Xenolepidichthys americanus in South Africa) may be the homologues of the "hills" of Oreosoma.

Only zanclids, caproids, luvarids, menids, grammicolepidids and perhaps siganids and leiognathids have larvae that could be confused with acanthurids.

2004, Jeffrey M. Leis, Brooke M. Carson-Ewart, The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes: An Identification Guide to Marine Fish Larvae, page 681:

2005, J. G. Ditty, Chapter 105: Families Parazenidae, Zeniontidae, Zeidae, Oreosomatidae, & Grammicolepidae, William J. Richards (editor), Early Stages of Atlantic Fishes: An Identification Guide for the Western Central North Atlantic, Volume 2, page 1109,
Grammicolepidids have dorsoventrally elongate linear scales rather than the cycloid or ctenoid scales of other zeiform families.

(zoology) Any of the deep-sea fish of the family Grammicolepididae.


grammistid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Grammistidae, now considered to be the serranid tribe Grammistini or subfamily Grammistinae.


grantiid

(zoology) Any member of the family Grantiidae of sponges.


grapsid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Grapsidae.


gromiid

(zoology) Any cercozoan in the family Gromiidae.


gryllacridid

(entomology) Any member of the Gryllacrididae.


gryllid

(entomology) Any member of the Gryllidae, the crickets.


grylloblattid

(zoology) Any insect in the family Grylloblattidae, the ice crawlers.


gryllotalpid

(entomology) Any member of the family Gryllotalpidae, the mole crickets.


gryphaeid

(zoology) Any member of the Gryphaeidae, honeycomb oysters or foam oysters.


grypoceratid

(zoology) Any extinct nautiloid cephalopod in the family Grypoceratidae.


guaibasaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Guaibasauridae.


gymnarchid

Gymnarchus niloticus
Gymnarchus niloticus#Translingual

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Gymnarchidae, consisting of a single species Gymnarchus niloticus of abas or African knifefishes.


gymnitid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Gymnitidae.


gymnophthalmid

(zoology) Any lizard of the family Gymnophthalmidae.


gymnotid

(zoology) Any member of the Gymnotidae; a naked-back knifefish.


gymnurid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Gymnuridae.


gyrinid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Gyrinidae, a whirligig beetle.


gyrinocheilid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Gyrinocheilidae.


haemadipsid

(zoology) Any leech of the family Haemadipsidae.


haematopinid

(entomology) Any louse in the family Haematopinidae.


haemogamasid

(zoology) Any mite in the family Haemogamasidae.


haemoproteid

(zoology) Any member of the Haemoproteidae.


haemulid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Haemulidae, the grunts.


hahniid

(zoology) Any member of the family Hahniidae of dwarf sheet spiders.


halarachnid

(zoology) Any mite in the family Halarachnidae.


halcampid

(zoology) Any sea anemone in the family Halcampidae.


halcyonid

(zoology) A tree kingfisher in the family Halcyonidae.


haleciid

(zoology) Any hydroid in the family Haleciidae


halichondriid

(zoology) Any sponge in the family Halichondriidae.


halictid

A single Eleodes hispilabris (apparently on its last leg) was seen near the north end of the mesa, which I photographed and collected, and on the way back I encountered a small patch of Sphaeralcea coccinea (scarlet globemallow) in bloom, from the flowers of which I collected a few small melyrid-type beetles and a small halictid bee for Mike.

2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:

(zoology) Any member of the family Halictidae, many of which are known as sweat bees.


halictophagid

(zoology) Any strepsipteran insect in the family Halictophagidae.


halid

(zoology) Any spider in the now obsolete family Halidae, which since 2006 is considered part of the family Pisauridae.


halimococcid

(zoology) Any scale insect in the family Halimococcidae.


haliotid

(zoology) Abalone, any member of the family Haliotidae.


haliplid

He wrote, ‘The haliplids are the crawling water beetles. They are small, oval and convex and are usually yellow or brown with dark spots. They may be discerned from other aquatic beetles by their large and plate-like hind coxae.’

2001, Percival Everett, Erasure, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 193:

(zoology) Any member of the family Haliplidae of crawling water beetles.


halkieriid

(zoology) Any member of the Halkieriidae.


haloritid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Haloritidae.


halosaurid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Halosauridae.


hamamelid

(botany) Any member of a grouping Hamamelididae used in analyses of flowering plant phylogeny toward the end of the twentieth century. It included a number of dicot families that have since been shown to be parts of other groups.

norkkokasvi

botany: member of the obsolete taxonomic grouping Hamamelididae


haminoeid

(zoology) Any member of the Haminoeidae.


hapalodectid

(zoology) Any mesonychian in the family Hapalodectidae.


haploceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Haploceratidae.


hapsidopareiontid

(zoology) Any tuditanomorph microsaur in the family Hapsidopareiontidae.


harpagiferid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Harpagiferidae.


harpid

(zoology) Any member of the family Harpidae of snails.


harrimaniid

(zoology) Any hemichordate in the family Harrimaniidae.


hartmannellid

(zoology) Any amoebozoan in the family Hartmannellidae.


haustoriid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Haustoriidae.


hebrid

(entomology) Any member of the family Hebridae, the velvet water bugs.


hegetotheriid

(zoology) Any notoungulate in the family Hegetotheriidae.


helcionellid

(zoology) Any extinct mollusk in the family Helcionellidae.


helcomyzid

(zoology) Any fly of the family Helcomyzidae.


heleid

(zoology) Any biting midge in the family Heleidae, a synonym of the Ceratopogonidae.


heleomyzid

Carrion in woods possibly has a distinctive fauna; the commonest flies are Piophila (especially Pnigriceps) and the heleomyzid Neoleria inscripta while Calliphoridae are less in evidence.

1978, Alan Stubbs, A dipterist's handbook, page 119:

Trixoscelids are scarcely distinguishable from heleomyzids.

1979, Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada:

The larvae of a small fly called a heleomyzid were present in some numbers on the body, suggesting that the burial probably took place at the end of winter or in early spring because eggs laid before winter would not have survived to produce larvae.

2013, Zakaria Erzinçlioglu, Maggots, Murder, and Men:

(zoology) Any member of the family Heleomyzidae of flies.


heleophrynid

(zoology) Any ghost frog in the family Heleophrynidae.


helicarionid

(zoology) Any snail of the family Helicarionidae.


helicid

(zoology) Any snail of the family Helicidae.


helicinid

(zoology) Any snails in the family Helicinidae.


helicodiscid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Helicodiscidae.


heliconiid

(zoology) Any butterfly in the family Heliconiidae, now considered to be the nymphalid subfamily Heliconiinae.


helicopsychid

(zoology) Any caddis fly in the family Helicopsychidae.


heliodinid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Heliodinidae.


helioporid

(zoology) Any coral in the family Helioporidae


heliornithid

(zoology) Any finfoot in the family Heliornithidae.


heliozelid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Heliozelidae.


helminthoglyptid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Helminthoglyptidae, now considered to be the xanthonychid subfamily Helminthoglyptinae.


helodermatid

(zoology) Any lizard in the family Helodermatidae


helophorid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Helophoridae.


helotid

(zoology) Any member of the family Helotidae of beetles.


hemigaleid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Hemigaleidae.


hemimerid

(zoology) Any earwig in the family Hemimeridae.


hemiodontid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Hemiodontidae.


hemiphractid

(zoology) Any frog in the family Hemiphractidae.


hemiramphid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Hemiramphidae; a halfbeak.


hemiscylliid

(ichthyology) Any of the family Hemiscylliidae of sharks.


hemisotid

(zoology) Any shovelnose frog in the family Hemisotidae.


hemitheid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Hemitheidae, now considered to be the geometrid tribe Hemitheini.


hemitripterid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Hemitripteridae.


henicid

(zoology) Any king cricket or weta in the family Henicidae.


henricosborniid

(zoology) Any member of the Henricosborniidae.


hepialid

(zoology) Any member of family Hepialidae of ghost moths.


heptageniid

(entomology) Any mayfly in the family Heptageniidae.


heptapterid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Heptapteridae.


heptaxodontid

(zoology) Any extinct rodent in the family Heptaxodontidae.


hercoglossid

(zoology) Any extinct nautiloid cephalopod in the family Hercoglossidae.


hermaeid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Hermaeidae.


herpestid

(zoology) Any member of the family Herpestidae of mongooses.


herpetotheriid

(zoology) Any metatherian in the family Herpetotheriidae.


herpyllobiid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Herpyllobiidae.


herrerasaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaure in the family Herrerasauridae.


hersiliid

(zoology) Any spider in the family Hersiliidae.


hesionid

(zoology) Any polychaete worm of the family Hesionidae.


hesperiid

(zoology) Any member of the family Hesperiidae; a skipper.


hesperornithid

From translingual Hesperornithidae, from Hesperornis (“genus name”).

Finally, the Volgorod locality, Maastrichtian in age, has yielded two dinosaurs (an indeterminate hesperornithid and a basal theropod) and a few turtles.

2011, David B. Weishampel, Coralia-Maria Jianu, Transylvanian Dinosaurs, Johns Hopkins University Press, page 109:

The arrival of these hesperornithids in more southern waters during the early Campanian may indicate a cooler climate, closer shores, adaptations to changes in prey, or other factors.

2017, Michael J. Everhart, Oceans of Kansas, Indiana University Press, page 365:

2020, Alan Feduccia, Romancing the Birds and Dinosaurs, Universal Publishers (BrownWalker Press), page 83,
9. Cretaceous foot-propelled divers, the hesperornithids, were grouped cladistically with loons (Eocene) and grebes (Miocene) as a clade, which would require re-evolution of teeth from an edentulous ancestor.

(paleontology) Any extinct avialan in the family Hesperornithidae.


heterenchelyid

(zoology) Any eel in the family Heterenchelyidae.


heterobathmiid

(zoology)Any moth in the family Heterobathmiidae.


heterocerid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Heteroceridae.


heteroderid

(zoology) Any nematode in the family Heteroderidae.


heterogynid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Heterogynidae.


heteromyid

(zoology) Any rodent of the family Heteromyidae.


heterophyid

(zoology) Any trematode flatworm in the family Heterophyidae.


heteropneustid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Heteropneustidae.


heterozerconid

(zoology) Any member of the Heterozerconidae.


hexabranchid

(zoology) Any sea slug in the family Hexabranchidae.


hexagrammid

(ichthyology) Any member of the family Hexagrammidae of greenlings.


hexapodid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Hexapodidae.


hexathelid

(zoology) Any member of the family Hexathelidae of funnel-web tarantulas.


heylerosaurid

(zoology) Any temnospondyl in the Heylerosauridae.


hiatellid

(zoology) Any clam in the family Hiatellidae.


hildoceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Hildoceratidae.


himantolophid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Himantolophidae.


hiodontid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Hiodontidae, the mooneyes.


hippid

(zoology) Any sand crab in the family Hippidae.


hippolytid

(zoology) Any shrimp in the family Hippolytidae.


hipponicid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Hipponicidae.


hipposaurid

(zoology) Any therapsid in the family Hipposauridae.


hirundinid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Hirundinidae; a swallow or martin.


histerid

Later, mostly in the 1950s, eight more histerid species were imported into Hawaii to attack the horn fly, of which four became established, including Pachylister caffer (Erichson) (Legner, 1978; Funasaki et al, 1988).

1999, K. S. Hagen, N. J. Mills, G. Gordh, J. A. McMurtry, “16. Terrestrial Arthropod Predators of Insect and Mite Pests”, in T. W. Fisher, Thomas S. Bellows, L. E. Caltagirone, D. L. Dahlsten, Carl B. Huffaker, G. Gordh, editors, Handbook of Biological Control, Academic Press, page 447:

Histerids are mainly predators of soft-bodied insect larvae and eggs, particularly those of cyclorraphan^([sic – meaning cyclorrhaphan]) Diptera.

2001, Peter W. Kovarik, Michael S. Caterino, “Family 15. HISTERIDAE Gyllenhal, 1808”, in Ross H. Arnett Jr., Michael C. Thomas, editors, American Beetles, Volume 1, CRC Press, page 216:

Histerids are scavengers and predators in decomposing organic material such as animal carcasses.

2004, David P. Rees, Insects of Stored Products, CSIRO Publishing, page 72:

(zoology) Any of the numerous beetles in the family Histeridae; a clown beetle.


histiopterid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Histiopteridae, now considered to be the pentacerotid subfamily Histiopterinae.


histiostomatid

(zoology) Any mite in the family Histiostomatidae.


histioteuthid

(zoology) Any squid in the family Histioteuthidae.


holmiid

(zoology) Any trilobite in the family Holmiidae.


holocentrid

(zoology) Any member of the family Holocentridae of squirrelfishes and soldierfishes.


holopeid

(zoology) Any extinct sea snail in the family Holopeidae.


holoptychiid

(zoology) Any extinct fish in the family Holoptychiidae.


holothuriid

(zoology) Any sea cucumber in the family Holothuriidae.


homalocephalid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Homalocephalidae, probably a synonym of the Pachycephalosauridae.


homalodotheriid

(zoology) Any toxodont in the family Homalodotheriidae.


homalonotid

(zoology) Any trilobite the family Homalonotidae.


homalonychid

(zoology) Any spider in the family Homalonychidae.


homarid

(zoology) Any lobster in the family Homaridae, a synonym of the Nephropidae.


homerid

From Latin Homeridae. Equivalent to Homer + -id.


homoceratid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Homoceratidae of extinct ammonites.


homolid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Homolidae.


homolodromiid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Homolodromiidae.


hoplichthyid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Hoplichthyidae.


hoplitid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Hoplitidae.


hoplocercid

(zoology) Any lizard in the family Hoplocercidae.


hoplolaimid

(zoology) Any nematode in the family Hoplolaimidae.


hormathiid

(zoology) Any sea anemone in the family Hormathiidae.


hormotomid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Hormotomidae, now known as the Murchisoniidae.


huayangosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Huayangosauridae,


hubbardiid

(zoology) Any arachnid in the family Hubbardiidae.


hyaenid

(zoology) Any member of the Hyaenidae; an aardwolf or hyena.


hyaenodontid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Hyaenodontidae.


hyalellid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Hyalellidae.


hyalid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Hyalidae.


hyblaeid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Hyblaeidae.


hybodontid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Hybodontidae.


hybosorid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Hybosoridae.


chymopapain

en-noun

chymopapain (countable and uncountable, plural chymopapains)

(biochemistry) A proteolytic enzyme isolated from the latex of papaya and used to treat herniated lower lumbar discs in the spine.


hybotid

(zoology) Any fly of the family Hybotidae.


hydatinid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Hydatinidae.


hydractiniid

(zoology) Any hydrozoan of the family Hydractiniidae.


hydraenid

(zoology) Any member of the family Hydraenidae of minute moss beetles.


hydrobatid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Hydrobatidae; a storm petrel.


hydrobiid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Hydrobiidae.


hydrobiosid

(zoology) Any caddis fly in the family Hydrobiosidae.


hydrocenid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Hydrocenidae.


hydrochoerid

(zoology) Any rodent of the family Hydrochoeridae (now reclassified as the subfamily Hydrochoerinae).


hydrometrid

(entomology) Any member of the family Hydrometridae, the water measurers or marsh treaders


hydrophiid

(zoology) Any sea snake in the family Hydrophiidae.


hydropsychid

(zoology) Any caddisfly in the family Hydropsychidae.


hydroptilid

(zoology) Any caddis fly in the family Hydroptilidae.


hydroscaphid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Hydroscaphidae.


hygrobiid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Hygrobiidae.


hygromiid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Hygromiidae.


hylaeochampsid

(zoology) Any extinct eusuchian in the family Hylaeochampsidae.


hylid

(zoology) Any member of the family Hylidae of frogs, including tree frogs.


hymenolepidid

(zoology) Any tapeworm in the family Hymenolepididae.


hymenopodid

(zoology) Any mantis in the family Hymenopodidae.


hymenosomatid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Hymenosomatidae.


hynobiid

(zoology) Any member of the family Hynobiidae of salamanders.


hyocephalid

(zoology) Any insect in the family Hyocephalidae.


hyopsodontid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Hyopsodontidae.


hyperiid

(zoology) Any amphipod of the suborder Hyperiidea.

(zoology, less common) Any amphipod of the family Hyperiidae.


hyperiopsid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Hyperiopsidae.


hyperoodontid

(zoology) Any beaked whale in the family Hyperoodontidae, a synonym of the Ziphiidae.


hypertragulid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Hypertragulidae.


hypochilid

Dr. Gertsch advised us that scorpions are remote relatives of spiders — no closer than a wasp is to a snout beetle — and that the rare ancient spider he nabbed was a hypochilid, dating back two hundred and fifty million years to the Carboniferous Age.

1953, The New Yorker, volume 29, number 3, page 33:

Their four booklungs linked these hypochilids with primitive mygalomorphs.

1999, Raymond R. Forster, Spiders of New Zealand and Their World-wide Kin, page 69:

The cribellar fibrils of the 12 hypochilid species are cylindrical with a diameter of about 25 nm, whereas fibrils of all other cribellate species, except members of the family Filistatidae, have regularly spaced, swollen nodes that have a diameter of about 35 nm.

2013, Wolfgang Nentwig, Spider Ecophysiology, page 305:

(zoology) Any member of the Hypochilidae (the lampshade spiders).


hypogastrurid

(zoology) Any springtail in the family Hypogastruridae.


hypopomid

(zoology) Any knifefish in the family Hypopomidae.


hypoptychid

(zoology) Any member of the family Hypoptychidae of gasterosteiform fish.


hypsibiid

(zoology) Any tardigrade in the family Hypsibiidae.


hypsidorid

(zoology) Any extinct catfish in the family Hypsidoridae.


hypsiprymnodontid

(zoology) Any marsupial in the family Hypsiprymnodontidae, which includes only one extant species, (musky rat-kangaroo), and numerous extinct species.


hyracodontid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Hyracodontidae.


hyriid

(zoology) Any freshwater mussel in the family Hyriidae.


hystricid

(zoology) Any member of the family Hystricidae, Old World porcupines


ibaliid

(zoology) Any cynipoid wasp in the family Ibaliidae.


icelid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Icelidae, which is now generally considered to be part of the family Cottidae.


ichneumonoid

(zoology) Any member of the superfamily Ichneumonoidea.


ichthyodectid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Ichthyodectidae of extinct predatory fish principally of the Cretaceous.


ichthyophiid

(zoology) Any caecilian in the family Ichthyophiidae.


ichthyornithid

(zoology) Any avialan in the family Ichthyornithidae.


ichthyosaurid

(zoology) Any member of the family Ichthyosauridae.


ichthyostegid

(zoology) Any labyrinthodont in the family Ichthyostegidae.


icosteid

(zoology) Any ragfish in the family Icosteidae.


ictalurid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Ictaluridae.


icterid

(ornithology) Any member of the family Icteridae of grackles and related New World birds.


idiacanthid

(zoology) Any fish in the stomiid subfamily Idiacanthinae.


idiopid

(zoology) Any spider in the family Idiopidae.


idiosepiid

(zoology) Any in the family Idiosepiidae of cephalopods.


idoteid

(zoology) Any isopod in the family Idoteidae.


iguanodontid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Iguanodontidae of iguana-like dinosaurs.


ilariid

(zoology) Any extinct marsupial in the family Ilariidae.


ilysiid

(zoology) Any snake in the family Ilysiidae, a synonym of the Aniliidae.


immid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Immidae.


inachid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Inachidae.


incurvariid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Incurvariidae.


indicatorid

(zoology) Any member of the Indicatoridae, the honeyguides.


indostomid

(zoology)Any fish in the family Indostomidae.


indriid

(zoology) Any lemur in the family Indriidae.


inermiid

(zoology)Any fish in the family Inermiidae, a synonym of the Haemulidae.


ingolfiellid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Ingolfiellidae.


iniid

According to Cozzuol (1996), iniids (including fossil taxa) are characterized by an extremely elongated rostrum and mandible, very narrow supraoccipital, greatly reduced orbital region, and pneumatized maxillae forming a crest.

2015, Annalisa Berta, Marine Mammals: Evolutionary Biology, page 88:

(zoology) Any river dolphin of the family Iniidae.


inocelliid

(zoology)Any snakefly in the family Inocelliidae.


inoceramid

(zoology)Any extinct bivalve in the family Inoceramidae.


intasuchid

(zoology)Any temnospondyl in the family Intasuchidae.


interatheriid

(zoology) Any notoungulate in the family Interatheriidae.


ipnopid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Ipnopidae of deepsea tripod fishes.


iravadiid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Iravadiidae.


irenid

(zoology)Any bird in the family Irenidae.


iridinid

(zoology)Any freshwater mussel in the family Iridinidae.


ironomyiid

(zoology) Any fly of the family Ironomyiidae.


isaeid

(zoology)Any amphipod in the family Isaeidae.


cortodoxone

From cort- (“corticosteroid”) + -o- + d(e)ox(y)- + -one.

af

(pharmacology, biochemistry) A steroid that can be oxygenated to cortisol.


deoxycortisol

(pharmacology, biochemistry) 11-deoxycortisol: cortodoxone


ischnochitonid

(zoology) Any chiton in the family Ischnochitonidae.


ischnurid

(zoology) Any scorpion in the family Ischnuridae.


ischyrocerid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Ischyroceridae.


isidid

(zoology) Any soft coral in the family Isididae


isostictid

(zoology)Any damselfly in the family Isostictidae.


isotemnid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Isotemnidae of extinct ungulates.


isotomid

(zoology) Any springtail in the family Isotomidae.


issid

(zoology) Any of the planthoppers in the family Issidae.


istiodactylid

(zoology) Any pterosaur in the family Istiodactylidae.


istiophorid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Istiophoridae, the marlins.


ithonid

The second, and most important, event was the publication of his first scientific paper (Adams 1950) - a short note on the rare North American ithonid Oliarces clara Banks.

1998, Journal of Neuropterology, volumes 1-2, page 76:

Like the ithonids, they appear to be an isolated and ancient family.

2005, Cedric Gillott, Entomology, 3rd edition, page 302:

2008, Lionel Stange, Lacewings, Antlions and Mantispids (Neuroptera), John L. Capinera, Encyclopedia of Entomology, Volume 4, page 2105,
Some species of ithonids (Ithone, Megalithone and Oliarces) have been observed swarming in vast numbers for short periods of time.

(zoology) Any insect of the moth lacewing family Ithonidae.


ixodorhynchid

(zoology)Any mite in the family Ixodorhynchidae.


jacanid

(ornithology) Any bird in the family Jacanidae; a jacana.


jacobsoniid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Jacobsoniidae.


jakobid

(zoology) Any protozoan in the order Jakobida.


janolid

A third species of janolid has been collected from San Diego, California and was depicted by Behrens (1980, fig. 152).

Food abundance does not appear to be a limiting factor as many ectoproct colonies are devoid of janolids.

1982, Annals of the South African Museum, volume 86, page 40:

As an example, the up to now unknown structure and function of the janolid caruncle (see GOSLINER 1994) was investigated herein.

2003, Michael Schrödl, Sea slugs of southern South America, page 117:

(zoology) Any member of the Janolidae (synonym of Proctonotidae), a family of sea slugs.


janthinid

(zoology) Any member of the family Epitoniidae (syn. Janthinidae); a wentletrap.


japygid

The japygids could not be established with certainty as carnivores, and efficiencies were calculated (a) with these animals ignored, (b) with them considered as carnivores, and (c) with them considered as 'herbivores'.

1970, John Anthony Wallwork, Ecology of soil animals, page 244:

(zoology) Any hexapod of the family Japygidae or superfamily Japygoidea.


acanaloniid

(entomology) Any member of the family Acanaloniidae.


jassid

(zoology) Any leaf-hopper in the family Jassidae, now considered to be the cicadellid subfamily Iassinae.


julid

(zoology) Any millipede in the order Julida.

(zoology) Any millipede in the family Julidae.


juliid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Juliidae.


juraphyllitid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Juraphyllitidae.


kalotermitid

(zoology) Any member of the family Kalotermitidae of termites.


kannemeyeriid

(zoology) Any therapsid in the family Kannemeyeriidae.


karaurid

(zoology) Any salamander-like amphibian in the family Karauridae.


kathlaniid

(zoology) Any nematode in the family Kathlaniidae.


katsuwonid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Katsuwonidae, a synonym of the Scombridae.


kentriodontid

(zoology) Any extinct cetacean in the family Kentriodontidae.


keraterpetontid

(zoology) Any lepospondyl in the family Keraterpetontidae.


kermesid

(zoology) Any scale insect in the family Kermesidae.


keroplatid

(zoology) Any fungus gnat of the family Keroplatidae.


kerriid

(zoology) Any lac insect in the family Kerriidae.


kinosternid

(zoology) Any turtle in the family Kinosternidae.


kionoceratid

(zoology) Any member of the Kionoceratidae.


kneriid

(zoology) Any gonorynchiform fish in the family Kneriidae.


kogaionid

Some, such as Kogaionids, probably laid eggs and hopped like frogs.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 25:

(zoology) An extinct multituberculate of the family Kogaionidae.


kogiid

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translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Kogiidae</i>

(zoology) Any whale in the family Kogiidae.


kraemeriid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Kraemeriidae, the sand gobies.


kuehneosaurid

(zoology) Any extinct lizardlike gliding reptile of the family Kuehneosauridae.


kuehneotheriid

(zoology) Any mammaliaform in the family Kuehneotheriidae.


kuhliid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Kuhliidae, the flagtails.


kurtid

(zoology) Any nurseryfish in the family Kurtidae.


kyphosid

The kyphosids are today one of the most primitive percosid families.

1967, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, volume 135, page 50:

A few apogonids are similarly shaped and pigmented, but none are as robust as kyphosids, and all have a prominent gas bladder and a divided dorsal fin with fewer elements. Heavily pigmented perciform larvae such as Iatids and toxotids have different skin meristics and smaller head spines than kyphosids.

2000, H. J. Walker Jr., F. J. Neira, A. G. Miskiewicz, B. M. Carson-Ewart, “74: Kyphosidae (Rudderfishes, Sea Chubs)”, in Jeffrey Martin Leis, Brooke M. Carson-Ewart, editors, The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes: An identification guide to marine fish larvae, page 467:

Siganids and kyphosids are less speciose than scarines and acanthurids, and are more conservative in their feeding habitats (Choat 1991, Choat et al 2002).

2009, Alison L. Green, David R. Bellwood, Monitoring Functional Groups of Herbivorous Reef Fishes as Indicators of Coral Reef Resilience, page 21:

(ichthyology) Any of the perciform fish of the family Kyphosidae (the sea chubs).


labidurid

(zoology) Any earwig in the family Labiduridae.


labiid

(zoology) Any earwig in the family Labiidae.


labrisomid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Labrisomidae.


lachesillid

(zoology) Any barklouse in the family Lachesillidae.


lactariid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Lactariidae.


laelapid

(zoology) Any member of the family Laelapidae of mites.


laemophloeid

(entomology) Any member of the Laemophloeidae.


lagosuchid

(zoology) Any archosaur in the family Lagosuchidae.


lamellariid

(zoology) Any of the gastropods in the family Lamellariidae, now considered the velutinid subfamily Lamellariinae.


lamellorthoceratid

(zoology) Any extinct cephalopod in the family Lamellorthoceratidae.


lamiid

(zoology) Any member of the family Lamiidae, now considered to be the cerambycid subfamily Lamiinae.


lamnid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Lamnidae.


lamponid

(zoology) Any spider in the family Lamponidae.


lamprid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Lamprididae, the opahs.


lampropid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Lampropidae.


laniid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Laniidae; a shrike.


lanthanotid

(zoology) Any lizard in the family Lanthanotidae.


largid

(zoology) Any plant bug in the family Largidae.


larid

(ornithology) Any member of the family Laridae, the gulls, terns, skimmers and noddies .


lasiocampid

(zoology) Any member of the Lasiocampidae.


laternulid

(zoology) Any clam in the family Laternulidae.


latiid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Latiidae.


latimerid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Latimeridae, the coelacanths.


latiscopid

(zoology) Any temnospondyl in the family Latiscopidae.


latreilliid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Latreilliidae.


latrid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Latridae.


latridiid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Latridiidae.


laubierinid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Laubierinidae.


lauriid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Lauriidae.


lauxaniid

(zoology) Any member of the family Lauxaniidae of flies.


lebiasinid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Lebiasinidae.


lecanodiaspidid

(zoology) Any scale insect in the family Lecanodiaspididae.


lecithocerid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Lecithoceridae.


leiodid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Leiodidae.


leiognathid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Leiognathidae.


leiopelmatid

(zoology) Any frog in the family Leiopelmatidae.


lemoniid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Lemoniidae, now considered to be part of the Brahmaeidae.


leontiniid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Leontiniidae.


lepadid

(zoology) Any member of the family Lepadidae, gooseneck barnacles in the order Pedunculata.


lepetellid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Lepetellidae.


lepetid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Lepetidae.


lepicerid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Lepiceridae.


lepidosirenid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Lepidosirenidae of South American lungfishes.


lepidoteuthid

(zoology) Any squid in the family Lepidoteuthidae.


lepilemurid

(zoology) Any lemur in the family Lepilemuridae.


lepismatid

(zoology) Any member of the family Lepismatidae of silverfish and bristletails


lepisosteid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Lepisosteidae; a gar.


leptocerid

(zoology) Any caddis fly in the family Leptoceridae.


leptochariid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Leptochariidae.


leptochitonid

(zoology) Any mollusk in the family Leptochitonidae.


leptodactylid

(zoology) Any frog of the family Leptodactylidae


leptodorid

(zoology) Any water flea in the family Leptodoridae.


leptohyphid

(entomology) Any mayfly in the family Leptohyphidae.


leptonetid

(zoology) Any spider in the family Leptonetidae.


leptophlebiid

(entomology) Any mayfly in the family Leptophlebiidae.


leptoscopid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Leptoscopidae.


leptotyphlopid

(zoology) Any snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae.


lernaeodiscid

(zoology) Any member of the family Lernaeodiscidae, parasitic barnacles in the superorder Rhizocephala.


lernaeopodid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Lernaeopodidae.


lestid

(zoology) Any damselfly in the family Lestidae.


lethrinid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Lethrinidae.


leuconid

(zoology) Any member of the family Leuconidae of hooded shrimps.


leucosiid

(zoology) Any member of the family Leucosiidae of crabs.


leucospid

(zoology) Any wasp in the family Leucospidae.


leucothoid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Leucothoidae.


leuctrid

(zoology) Any stonefly in the family Leuctridae.


antizyme

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that inhibits the action of another


chemobiology

(biochemistry) The study of the influence of chemical compounds on biological systems

(biochemistry, physical chemistry) The study of the effect of chemical structure on biological activity


libytheid

(zoology) Any butterfly in the family Libytheidae, now considered to be the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae.


ligiid

[…] an asellote (Iathrippa longicauda) and a ligiid (Ligia italica) […]

1991, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, volumes 31-32, page 164:

(zoology) Any member of the family Ligiidae of woodlice.


liljeborgiid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Liljeborgiidae.


limacid

(zoology) Any slug in the family Limacidae.


limacinid

(zoology) Any member of the family Limacinidae of heterobranch snails, known as sea butterflies.


limacodid

(zoology) Any moth the family Limacodidae.


limapontiid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Limapontiidae.


limid

(zoology) Any in the family Limidae of mollusks.


limnephilid

(entomology) Any of the caddisflies in the family Limnephilidae.


limnocytherid

(zoology) Any ostracod in the family Limnocytheridae.


limnodynastid

(zoology) Any frog in the family Limnodynastidae.


limnoriid

(zoology) Any isopod in the family Limnoriidae.


limnoscelid

(zoology) Any tetrapod in the family Limnoscelidae.


limoniid

(zoology) Any cranefly in the family Limoniidae.


limopsid

(zoology) Any bivalve in the family Limopsidae.


limulid

(zoology) Any horseshoe crab in the family Limulidae.


lineid

(zoology) Any nemertean worm in the family Lineidae.


linophrynid

(zoology)Any fish in the family Linophrynidae.


liochelid

(zoology) Any scorpion in the family Liochelidae, a synonym of the Hemiscorpiidae.


liocranid

(zoology) Any member of the family Liocranidae of certain sac spiders.


liolaemid

(zoology) Any lizard in the family Liolaemidae.


liotiid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Liotiidae.


liparoceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Liparoceratidae.


liphistiid

(araneology, zoology) Any spider in the family Liphistiidae.


lipotid

(zoology) Any river dolphin of the family Lipotidae.


liroceratid

(zoology) Any extinct nautiloid cephalopod in the family Liroceratidae.


listrophorid

(zoology) Any mite in the family Listrophoridae.


lithodid

(zoology) Any of the crab-like crustaceans in the family Lithodidae, the king crabs.


lithornithid

(zoology) Any extinct bird in the family Lithornithidae.


litiopid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Litiopidae.


littorinid

(zoology) Any member of the Littorinidae of univalves.


lituitid

(zoology) Any in the family †Lituitidae of extinct cephalopods.


lobotid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Lobotidae; a tripletail.


locustid

(zoology) Any member of the Locustidae family, now included in subfamily Oedipodinae in family Acrididae.


loliginid

(zoology) Any squid in the family Loliginidae.


lomid

(zoology) Any member of the family Lomidae of hairy stone crabs.


lonchaeid

(zoology) Any fly of the family Lonchaeidae.


lonchopterid

(zoology) Any fly of the family Lonchopteridae.


lophocoronid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Lophocoronidae.


lophospirid

(zoology) Any extinct sea snail in the family Lophospiridae.


lophotid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Lophotidae, the crestfish or unicornfish.


loricariid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Loricariidae.


loriid

(zoology) Any parrot in the family Loriidae, now considered to be the psittacid subfamily Loriinae.


lorisid

(zoology) Any primate in the family Lorisidae; a loris or potto.


lotid

(zoology) Any member of the family Lotidae of lings and similar fish.


lottiid

(zoology)Any gastropod in the family Lottiidae.


endoproteolytic

(biochemistry) That breaks the peptide bonds of nonterminal amino acids in proteins


lovenellid

(zoology) Any hydroid in the family Lovenellidae


loveniid

(zoology) Any sea urchin in the family Loveniidae


loxommatid

(zoology) Any primitive tetrapod in the family Loxommatidae, a synonym of the Baphetidae.


loxonematid

(zoology) Any extinct gastropod in the family Loxonematidae.


loxoscelid

(zoology) Any in the former family Loxoscelidae of recluse spiders, now considered part of the family Sicariidae.


lucanid

(zoology) Any member of the family Lucanidae.


luciferid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Luciferidae.


luciocephalid

(zoology) Any gourami in the family Luciocephalidae, now considered to be the osphronemid subfamily Luciocephalinae.


lumbricid

(zoology) Any earthworm in the family Lumbricidae.


lumbriculid

(zoology) Any worm of the family Lumbriculidae.


lycid

For an instant I thought it was a lycid, but it moved characteristically like a longhorned beetle, and I quickly realized that I had collected Elytroleptus floridanus—a quite rare southeastern U.S. species that I have only seen once before when I reared a single individual from dead oak that I collected in the Missouri bootheel (and representing a new state record).

2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:


lycosid

(zoology) Any spider in the family Lycosidae; a wolf spider.


lycosuchid

(zoology) Any therapsid in the family Lycosuchidae.


lycoteuthid

(zoology) Any squid in the family Lycoteuthidae.


lyctid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Lyctidae.


lydekkerinid

(zoology) Any temnospondyl in the family Lydekkerinidae.


lygaeid

Borrowed from translingual Lygaeidae, from the type genus, translingual Lygaeus, borrowed from Ancient Greek λῡγαῖος (lūgaîos, “dark, gloomy”).

der

(zoology) Any plant bug in the family Lygaeidae.


lymantrid

(zoology) Alternative spelling of lymantriid.


lymexylid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Lymexylidae.


lymnaeid

(zoology) Any pond snail in the family Lymnaeidae.


lymnocardiid

(zoology) Any cockle in the family Lymnocardiidae, now considered to be the cardiid subfamily Lymnocardiinae.


lyonetiid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Lyonetiidae.


lyonsiid

(zoology) Any clam in the family Lyonsiidae.


lypusid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Lypusidae.


lysianassid

(zoology) Any crustacean of the family Lysianassidae.


lysiosquillid

(zoology) Any mantis shrimp in the family Lysiosquillidae.


lysorophid

(zoology) Any tetrapod in the family Lysorophidae, a synonym for the Molgophidae.


lystrosaurid

(zoology) Any therapsid in the family Lystrosauridae.


lytoceratid

(paleontology) Any member of the family Lytoceratidae of ammonites.

(paleontology, dated) Any member of the order Lytoceratida (now the suborder Lytoceratina).


macariid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Macariidae, now considered to be the geometrid tribe Macariini.


machaerotid

(zoology) Any insect in the family Machaerotidae.


macluritid

(zoology) Any extinct gastropod in the family Macluritidae.


macraucheniid

(zoology) Any extinct hoofed mammal of the family Macraucheniidae.


macristiid

(zoology) Any fish in the obsolete family Macristiidae, which turned out to be a collection of misidentified larval aulopiforms.


macrochelid

(zoology) Any mite in the family Macrochelidae.


macromiid

(entomology) Any dragonfly of the family Macromiidae.


macronyssid

(zoology) Any mite in the family Macronyssidae.


macropetalichthyid

(zoology) Any placoderm in the family Macropetalichthyidae.


macrophthalmid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Macrophthalmidae.


macropodid

(zoology) Any member of the Macropodidae; a kangaroo.


macroramphosid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Macroramphosidae.


macroscelidid

(zoology) Any member of the family Macroscelididae, the elephant shrews.


macrosemiid

(zoology) Any fish in the extinct family Macrosemiidae.


macrostomid

(zoology) Any flatworm in the family Macrostomidae.


maenid

(zoology) Any member of the family Maenidae (now Centracanthidae) of picarel fishes.


magilid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Magilidae, synonym for the muricid subfamily Coralliophilinae.


maizaniid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Maizaniidae.


majid

(zoology) Any of the family Majidae of sea spiders or spider crabs.


malacanthid

(zoology) Any in the family Malacanthidae of tilefishes.


malachiid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Malachiidae, now considered to be the melyrid subfamily Malachiinae.


malkarid

(zoology) Any spider in the family Malkaridae.


malleid

(zoology) Any clam in the family Malleidae.


malletiid

(zoology) Any mollusk in the family Malletiidae.


malvid

(botany) Any plant in the malvids clade.


mamenchisaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Mamenchisauridae.


mammutid

(zoology) Any member of the family Mammutidae; a mammoth.


mantellid

(zoology) Any frog in the family Mantellidae.


marathonitid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Marathonitidae.


margaritiferid

(zoology) Any freshwater mussel in the family Margaritiferidae.


margarodid

(zoology) Any in the family Margarodidae of scale insects.


marginellid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Marginellidae.


massospondylid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Massospondylidae.


mastacembelid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Mastacembelidae.


mastigoteuthid

(zoology) Any squid in the family Mastigoteuthidae.


mastodonsaurid

(zoology) Any temnospondyl in the family Mastodonsauridae.


mastotermitid

(zoology) Any termite of the family Mastotermitidae.


mathildid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Mathildidae.


matutid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Matutidae.


mawsoniid

(zoology) Any extinct coelacanth in the family Mawsoniidae.


mazocraeid

(zoology) Any flatworm in the family Mazocraeidae.


meandrinid

(zoology) Any stony coral in the family Meandrinidae.


mecicobothriid

(zoology) Any spider in the family Mecicobothriidae.


mecochirid

(zoology) Any extinct lobsterlike crustacean in the family Mecochiridae.


mecysmaucheniid

(zoology) Any spider in the family Mecysmaucheniidae.


medlicottiid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Medlicottiidae.


megadermatid

(zoology) Any bat in the family Megadermatidae.


megaladapid

(zoology) Any extinct lemur in the family Megaladapidae.


megalichthyid

(zoology) Any extinct fish in the family Megalichthyidae.


megalodontid

(zoology) Any of the extinct bivalves in the family Megalodontidae.


megalonychid

(zoology) Any sloth in the family Megalonychidae.


megalopid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Megalopidae.


megalopygid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Megalopygidae.


megalosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur of the family Megalosauridae.


megalurid

(zoology) Any warbler in the family Megaluridae, a synonym for the Locustellidae.


megalyrid

(zoology) Any wasp in the family Megalyridae.


megamerinid

(zoology) Any member of the Megamerinidae.


megapodagrionid

(zoology) Any damselfly in the family Megapodagrionidae; a flatwing.


megapodid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Megapodiidae; a megapode or mound builder.


megapodiid

(zoology) Alternative form of megapodid.


megascolecid

Before the study was begun, the known oligochaete fauna of Tasmania consisted of six species of aquatic microdriles, twenty-three indigenous species of megascolecid earthworms, and introduced earthworms of the family Lumbricidae.

1975, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History): Zoology, volume 26, page 205:

(zoology) Any earthworm of the family Megascolecidae.


megaspilid

(zoology) Any parasitic wasp in the family Megaspilidae.


megaspirid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Megaspiridae.


megatheriid

(zoology) Any in the family Megatheriidae of ground sloths.


megathymid

(zoology) Any skipper in the family Megathymidae, now considered to be part of the Hesperiidae, perhaps as the subfamily Megathyminae.


megazostrodontid

(zoology) Any mammaliaform cynodont in the family Megazostrodontidae.


megisthanid

(zoology) Any mite in the family Megisthanidae.


megophryid

(zoology) Any frog in the family Megophryidae.


meinertellid

(zoology) Any bristletail in the family Meinertellidae.


meiolaniid

The meiolaniids were ancient turtles that evolved during the Eocene epoch, between 55 and 34 million years ago. Fossils of meiolaniid species come from Argentina, from Australia, and from several islands near Australia, including Tasmania and New Caledonia.

2007, Rebecca Stefoff, Turtles, page 52:

Turtle remains are particularly common at Lightning Ridge, comprising several distinct lineages including aquatic chelids and peculiar meiolaniid-like taxa—meiolaniids were spectacular horned turtles known from the Australian region and South America.

2012, Elizabeth T. Smith, Benjamin P. Kear, “Chapter 9: Spoochelys ormondea gen. et sp. nov., an archaic Meiolaniid-Like Turtle from the Early Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, Australia”, in Donald B. Brinkman, Patricia A. Holroyd, James D. Gardner, editors, Morphology and Evolution of Turtles, page 121:

Meiolaniids are a peculiar group of extinct turtles bearing cranial horns and frills, caudal rings, and tail clubs and restricted to South America (Eocene) and Australasia (Oligocene to Holocene).

2014, Marcelo de la Fuente, Juliana Sterli, Ignacio Maniel, Origin, Evolution and Biogeographic History of South American Turtles, page 134:

(zoology) Any of the extinct armoured land turtles of the family †Meiolaniidae.


melamphaid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Melamphaidae.


melandryid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Melandryidae.


melaniid

(zoology) Any freshwater snail in the family Melaniidae (synonym of family Thiaridae).


melanocetid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Melanocetidae.


melanonid

(zoology) Any member of the family Melanonidae of deep-sea fish.


melanopsid

(zoology) Any freshwater snail in the family Melanopsidae.


melanorosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur of the Melanorosauridae.


melanotaeniid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Melanotaeniidae, the rainbowfishes.


meleagridid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Meleagrididae, now considered to be the phasianid subfamily Meleagridinae, the turkeys.


melid

(zoology) Any member of the family Melidae, now usually subfamily Melinae in family Mustelidae, of badgers.


meliphagid

Flowers with long, tubular corollas are visited mainly by long-billed meliphagids; the latter, however, also visit flowers of other types.

1985, Allen Keast, An introductory ecological biogeography of the Australo-Pacific Meliphagidae: New Zealand Journal of Zoology, volume 13, number 4, page 620:

The meliphagids, as their common name implies, are primarily nectar feeding or nectarivorous and were quite possibly prevented from any significant adaptive radiation on each main island by competition from the (presumably) earlier radiated Hawaiian honeycreepers.

2002, Alan C. Ziegler, Hawaiian Natural History, Ecology, and Evolution, page 263:

I am not familiar with any detailed studies of the ecology of nectarivores in the brushtongued parrots, meliphagids, and certain marsupial mammals in forests of Australia and New Guinea.

2012, James R. Karr, “Chapter 22: Birds”, in H. Lieth, M.J.A. Werger, editors, Tropical Rain Forest Ecosystems: Biogeographical and Ecological Studies, page 408:

(zoology, ornithology) Any bird of the family Meliphagidae; a honeyeater.


meliponid

(zoology) Any bee in the family Meliponidae, now considered to be the apid tribe Meliponini.


melithaeid

(zoology) Any soft coral in the family Melithaeidae


melitid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Melitidae.


melittid

Regarding the transport sites, apids, melittids, ctenoplectrids, and megachilids all show little variation whereas the other bee families display wide variation.

1992, David W. Roubik, editor, Ecology and Natural History of Tropical Bees, page 45:

In further support of the antiquity of this clade is the widely disjunct distribution of some of its basal members among the dasypodaine melittids, as indicated in Sections 26 and 68 and Michener (1981a).

2000, Charles Duncan Michener, The Bees of the World, volume 1, page 95:

The relatively good fossil representation of melittids and their long-tongued associates has been argued to be a reflection of a bias in favour of resin-collecting bees.

2010, Geoff Williams, Paul Adam, The Flowering of Australia's Rainforests: A Plant and Pollination Miscellany, page 105:

(zoology) Any bee of the family Melittidae.


meloid

Cantharidin is sometimes referred to as Spanish fly because of its derivation from adults of the large meloid Lytta vesicatoria that is commonly found in Spain; it is a potent vesicant with a putative function as an aphrodisiac.

1981, Murry Blum, Chemical Defenses of Arthropods, page 20:

Meloids are herbivorous as adults, and their larvae are parasites of bees or eat grasshopper eggs.

2002, Frank N. Young, Jr., Gene Kritsky, A Survey of Entomology, page 200:

Cantharidin is also a potent blistering agent.[…]Individual meloids may contain as much as 17 milligrams of cantharidin, or 10% of live weight.

2005, Thomas Eisner, Maria Eisner, Melody V. S. Siegler, Secrets Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Others Many-Legged Creatures, page 221:

2009, "Coleoptera", entry in Vincent H. Resh, Ring T. Cardé (editors), Encyclopedia of Insects, page 198,
Although meloids are known to produce cantharidin, transfer of this compound during meloid mating has not been documented.

(zoology) Any beetle of the taxonomic family Meloidae; a blister beetle.


melongenid

(zoology) Any mollusk in the family Melongenidae.


melphidippid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Melphidippidae.


melyrid

A single Eleodes hispilabris (apparently on its last leg) was seen near the north end of the mesa, which I photographed and collected, and on the way back I encountered a small patch of Sphaeralcea coccinea (scarlet globemallow) in bloom, from the flowers of which I collected a few small melyrid-type beetles and a small halictid bee for Mike.

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Melyridae, the soft-winged flower beetles.


membraniporid

(zoology) Any bryozoan in the family Membraniporidae.


menid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Menidae, the moonfishes.


menippid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Menippidae.


menoponid

(entomology) Any louse in the family Menoponidae.


menthid

(zoology) Any pseudoscorpion in the family Menthidae.


menurid

(zoology) Any member of the family Menuridae of lyrebirds.


mephitid

(zoology) Any member of the family Mephitidae of skunks and stink badgers.


merluccid

(zoology) Alternative form of merlucciid.


mermithid

Mermithids are occasionally found, but spirurids, so common in the above 2 groups, are lacking in the Grylloidea, as are other groups of nematodes.

1975, George O. Poinar, Entomogenous Nematodes: A Manual and Host List of Insect-nematode Associations:

(zoology) Any member of the family Mermithidae of nematode worms that are endoparasites in arthropods.


meropeid

(zoology) Any scorpionfly in the family Meropeidae.


meropid

(ornithology) Any bird in the family Meropidae, the bee-eaters.


merulid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Merulidae, an old name for the Turdidae; a thrush.


merycoidodontid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Merycoidodontidae.


mesosaurid

(zoology) Any extinct reptile in the family Mesosauridae; a mesosaur.


mesotheriid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Mesotheriidae.


metarbelid

(zoology) Any member of the Metarbelidae.


metastrongylid

(zoology) Any nematode in the family Metastrongylidae.


metoposaurid

(zoology) Any temnospondyl of the family Metoposauridae.


metridiid

(zoology) Any sea anemone of the family Metridiidae.


metridinid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Metridinidae.


metriorhynchid

(zoology) Any crocodylomorph in the family Metriorhynchidae.


miacid

From scientific Latin Miacidae (family name), from Miacis (genus name), of uncertain origin.

The trenchant talonid is a character of some miacids and distinguishes these teeth from the hyaenodontids and oxyaenids.

1971, Thomas H. V. Rich, Deltatheridia, Carnivora, and Condylarthra (Mammalia) of the Early Eocene, Paris Basin, France:

Miacids were long-bodied, had long tails, were pine marten sized or smaller, and some lived in trees while others spent their time on the ground.

2016 November 26, Elsa Panciroli, “Rifling through the 'wastebaskets' of palaeontology reveals surprises”, in The Guardian:

(paleontology) Any member of the Miacidae family of extinct mammals.


michelinoceratid

(zoology) Any extinct cephalopod in the family Michelinoceratidae, a synonym of the Orthoceratidae.


microbiotheriid

(zoology) Any marsupial in the family Microbiotheriidae; a colocolo opossum.


microbrachid

(zoology) Any tetrapod in the family Microbrachidae.


microcerberid

(zoology) Any isopod in the family Microcerberidae.


microcionid

(zoology) Any sponge in the family Microcionidae.


microcosmodontid

(zoology) Any multituberculate in the family Microcosmodontidae.


microdesmid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Microdesmidae, the wormfishes and dartfishes.


microdomatid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Microdomatidae.


microhedylid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Microhedylidae, possibly a synonym of the Parhedylidae.


micromalthid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Micromalthidae.


micromelaniid

(zoology) Any aquatic snail in the family Micromelaniidae, now considered to be a synonym of the hydrobiid subfamily Pyrgulinae.


micromelerpetontid

(zoology) Any temnospondyl in the family Micromelerpetontidae.


micropezid

(zoology) Any fly of the family Micropezidae.


microphysid

(zoology) Any bug in the family Microphysidae.


microporellid

(zoology) Any bryozoan in the family Microporellidae.


micropterigid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Micropterigidae.


micropygid

(zoology) Any sea urchin in the family Micropygidae


microsporid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Microsporidae, a synonym of the Sphaeriusidae.


microstigmatid

(zoology) Any spider in the family Microstigmatidae.


microstomatid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Microstomatidae.


microstomid

(zoology) Any flatworm in the family Microstomidae.


micryphantid

(zoology) Any spider in the family Micryphantidae, now considered to be a synonym of the linyphiid subfamily Erigoninae.


mictyrid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Mictyridae.


migid

(zoology) Any spider in the family Migidae.


milacid

The buccal mass in milacids is spheroidal, and contains an oxygnathic jaw.

2004, G. M. Barker, Natural Enemies of Terrestrial Molluscs, page 299:

Chemically unknown tissue toxins from internal organs that may kill Pterostichus carabids are uniquely known from the milacid slug Tandonia budapestensis, which shows an aposematic coloration (orange dorsal line).

2010, Comprehensive Natural Products II: Chemistry and Biology, page 392:

The atrium is a simple structure in the Limacidae and in Milacidae but in some milacid slugs it is equipped with a stimulator (see Section 5.1.7) and, in most milacids, accessory or atrial glands open into the atrium.

2012, A. South, Terrestrial Slugs: Biology, ecology and control, page 110:

(zoology) Any member of the family Milacidae of slugs.


milichiid

(zoology) Any fly of the family Milichiidae.


miliolid

(zoology) Any foraminifer in the order Miliolida.


milleporid

(zoology) Any hydrozoan in the family Milleporidae.


millerettid

(zoology) Any parareptile in the family Millerettidae.


mimallonid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Mimallonidae.


mimetid

(zoology) Any spider in the family Mimetidae.


mimid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Mimidae, the mockingbirds, catbirds and thrashers.


miniopterid

(zoology) Any bat in the family Miniopteridae.


minuid

(zoology) Any harvestman in the family Minuidae, a synonym of the Kimulidae.


mitrid

(zoology) Any in the family Mitridae of sea snails.


mitsukurinid

(zoology) Any member of the family Mitsukurinidae, a goblin shark.


miturgid

(zoology) Any spider in the family Miturgidae.


mixodectid

(zoology) Any extinct mammal in the family Mixodectidae.


mixosaurid

(zoology) Any ichthyosaur in the family Mixosauridae.


mnesarchaeid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Mnesarchaeidae.


mobulid

(zoology) Any member of the subfamily Mobulinae, in family Myliobatidae (sometimes family Mobulidae), the manta rays and devil rays.


modulid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Modulidae.


moeritheriid

(zoology) Any member of the Moeritheriidae.


mohoid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Mohoidae.


moinid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Moinidae.


molossid

(zoology) Any bat in the family Molossidae


molpadiid

(zoology) Any sea cucumber in the family Molpadiidae


momotid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Momotidae; a motmot.


momphid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Momphidae.


monacanthid

(zoology) Any in the family Monacanthidae of filefishes.


monarchid

(Ornithology) Any member of the Monarchidae (monarch flycatchers).


monodactylid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Monodactylidae.


monodontid

(zoology) Any member of the family Monodontidae; a beluga or a narwhal.


monognathid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Monognathidae of onejaws.


monommatid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Monommatidae, now considered to be the zopherid tribe Monommatini.


monommid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Monommidae, synonym for the zopherid tribe Monommatini.


monophlebid

(zoology) Any scale insect in the family Monophlebidae.


monotomid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Monotomidae.


monstrillid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Monstrillidae.


montacutid

(zoology) Any bivalve in the family Montacutidae.


mopaliid

(zoology) Any chiton in the family Mopaliidae.


mordaciid

(zoology) Any member of the family Mordaciidae of lampreys or the generally equivalent subfamily Mordaciinae of family Petromyzontidae.


mordellid

(zoology) Any in the family Mordellidae of beetles.


moringuid

(zoology) Any in the family Moringuidae of eels.


mormoopid

(zoology) Any member of the Mormoopidae of bats; ghost-faced bats.


moronid

(zoology) Any in the family Moronidae of temperate basses.


moschid

(zoology) Any member of the family Moschidae, several species of musk deer in genus Moschus.


moschorhinid

(zoology) Any therapsid in the family Moschorhinidae, a synonym of the Akidnognathidae.


mugilid

(zoology) Any member of the family Mugilidae of grey mullets.


munidid

(zoology) Any crustacean of the family Munididae, the squat lobsters.


muraenesocid

(zoology) Any eel in the family Muraenesocidae.


muraenid

The posterior nostril in xenocongrids lies immediately before the center of the eye, on the outside of the upper lip, or inside the confines of the mouth; in the muraenids, it nearly always lies above the eye.

1993, James E. Böhlke, Charles C. G. Chaplin, Fishes of the Bahamas and Adjacent Tropical Waters, page 70:

(zoology) Any eel in the family Muraenidae.


muraenolepidid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Muraenolepididae.


murchisoniid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Murchisoniidae.


muscicapid

(zoology) Any bird in the family Muscicapidae.


musophagid

(zoology) Any member of the family Musophagidae, the turacos.


mussid

(zoology) Any coral in the family Mussidae.


mutelid

(zoology) Any freshwater mussel in the family Mutelidae, a synonym of the Iridinidae.


mutillid

(zoology) Any velvet ant in the family Mutillidae.


mycalid

(zoology) Any sponge in the family Mycalidae.


mycetophagid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Mycetophagidae.


mycetophilid

Borrowed from translingual Mycetophilidae.

(zoology) Any fungus gnat in the family Mycetophilidae.


mycetopodid

(zoology) Any freshwater mussel in the family Mycetopodidae.


mycterid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Mycteridae.


mydaid

(entomology) Any member of the Mydidae; a Mydas fly.


mydid

(zoology) Any fly in the family Mydidae.


myid

(zoology) Any member of the Myidae family of clams.


mylagaulid

(zoology) Any extinct rodent in the family Mylagaulidae.


myliobatid

(zoology) Any member of the family Myliobatidae of eagle rays.


mylodontid

(zoology) Any ground sloth in the family Mylodontidae.


mymarid

(zoology) Any chalcid wasp in the family Mymaridae.


mymarommatid

(zoology) Any tiny wasp in the family Mymarommatidae.


myobatrachid

(zoology) Any frog in the family Myobatrachidae.


myocastorid

(zoology) Any rodent in the family Myocastoridae; a nutria or coypu.


myochamid

(zoology) Any clam in the family Myochamidae.


myopsocid

(zoology) Any barklouse in the family Myopsocidae.


myrmecobiid

(zoology) Any marsupial in the family Myrmecobiidae; a numbat.


myrmecolacid

(zoology) Any strepsipteran in the family Myrmecolacidae.


myrmecophagid

(zoology) Any anteater in the family Myrmecophagidae


myrmeleontid

(zoology) Any antlion in the Myrmeleontidae.


mysid

(zoology) Any crustacean of the order Mysida.

(zoology, less common) Any crustacean of the family Mysidae.


mysmenid

(zoology) Any spider in the family Mysmenidae.


mystacinid

(zoology) Any bat in the family Mystacinidae.


mythicomyiid

(zoology) Any fly of the family Mythicomyiidae.


mytilicolid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Mytilicolidae.


myxillid

(zoology) Any sponge in the family Myxillidae.


myxobolid

(zoology) Any myxozoan in the family Myxobolidae


myzopodid

From the family name, from Ancient Greek μυζάω (muzáō, “suck”) + πούς (poús, “foot”).

(zoology) Any member of the family Myzopodidae of bats; Madagascar sucker-footed bat.


nabid

(entomology) Any member of the family Nabidae, the damsel bugs


nacellid

(zoology) Any limpet in the family Nacellidae.


naidid

(zoology) Any worm of the family Naididae.


nandid

(zoology) Any leaffish in the family Nandidae.


nannastacid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Nannastacidae.


nannochoristid

(zoology) Any mecopteran insect in the family Nannochoristidae.


nannosquillid

(zoology) Any stomatopod in the family Nannosquillidae.


narcinid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Narcinidae.


narkid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Narkidae.


nassariid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Nassariidae.


natalid

(zoology) Any member of the family Natalidae of funnel-eared bats.


naticid

(zoology) Any the family Naticidae of gastropods.


naucorid

(entomology) Any member of the family Naucoridae, the creeping water bugs


nautilid

Nautilids puttered along from that day to this, growing slowly, building thick shells, and laying large yolky eggs.

2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 76:

(zoology) A cephalopod of the family Nautilidae.


neanurid

(zoology) Any springtail of the family Neanuridae.


nebaliid

(zoology) Any member of the family Nebaliidae of small crustaceans.


nectariniid

(zoology) Any member of the Nectariniidae; a sunbird or spiderhunter.


neilonellid

(zoology) Any clam in the family Neilonellidae.


nemastomatid

(zoology) Any harvestman of the family Nemastomatidae.


nematistiid

(zoology) Any in the family Nematistiidae of roosterfish.


nematogenyid

(zoology) Any member of the Nematogenyidae.


nemegtosaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Nemegtosauridae.


nemertodermatid

(zoology) Any acoelomorph in the family Nemertodermatidae.


nemesiid

(zoology) Any spider in the family Nemesiidae.


nemestrinid

(zoology) Any fly of the family Nemestrinidae.


nemichthyid

(zoology) Any eel in the family Nemichthyidae.


nemipterid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Nemipteridae.


nemopterid

(zoology) Any member of the Nemopteridae.


nemourid

(zoology) Any stonefly in the family Nemouridae.


myocilin

(biochemistry) Any of a class of proteins, normally secreted into the aqueous humor of the eye, that sometimes accumulate to cause glaucoma.


olfactomedin

(biochemistry) Any of a class of polymeric glycoproteins that are a major component of the extracellular matrix of olfactory neuroepithelium


optimedin

(biochemistry) A particular olfactomedin


rhotekin

(biochemistry) A scaffold protein that interacts with Rho proteins


neobalaenid

(zoology) Any whale in the family Neobalaenidae; a pygmy right whale.


neoceratiid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Neoceratiidae.


neoechinorhynchid

(zoology) Any acanthocephalan in the family Neoechinorhynchidae.


neoepiblemid

(zoology) Any extinct rodent in the family Neoepiblemidae.


neoglyphioceratid

(zoology) Any member of the Neoglyphioceratidae.


neolanid

(zoology) Any member of the family Neolanidae of spiders.


neolepetopsid

(zoology) Any limpet in the family Neolepetopsidae.


neomphalid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Neomphalidae.


neoplagiaulacid

(zoology) Any ptilodontoid mammal in the family Neoplagiaulacidae.


neopseustid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Neopseustidae.


neoscopelid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Neoscopelidae, such as the blackchin.


neoteuthid

(zoology) Any squid in the family Neoteuthidae.


neottiophilid

(zoology) Any fly in the family Neottiophilidae, a synonym of the Piophilidae.


neovenatorid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Neovenatoridae.


nephilid

(zoology) Any spider in the former family Nephilidae, now considered part of the family Araneidae.


nephropid

(zoology) Any member of the Nephropidae.


nephropsid

(zoology) Any lobster in the family Nephropsidae.


nephtheid

(zoology) Any soft coral in the family Nephtheidae


nephtyid

(zoology) Any polychaete worm of the family Nephtyidae.


nepid

However some gerrids, nepids and veliids are attacked by allantonematid nematodes and Burton (1963) found Wuchereria bancrofti (Cobb) in a bedbug, although this insect was not considered an intermediate host.

(zoology) Any member of the family Nepidae of water scorpions.


nepticulid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Nepticulidae.


nereidid

Back-formation from Nereididae. By surface analysis, Nereid + -id.

(zoology) Any polychaete worm of the Nereididae.


neriid

(zoology) Any fly of the family Neriidae.


nerillid

(zoology) Any polychaete worm of the family Nerillidae.


nerineid

(zoology) Any extinct sea snail in the family Nerineidae.


nerinellid

(zoology) Any extinct sea snail in the family Nerinellidae.


neritid

(zoology) Any in sea snail in the family Neritidae; a nerite.


neritiliid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Neritiliidae.


neritopsid

(zoology) Any gastropod in the family Neritopsidae.


nesomyid

(zoology) Any rodent in the family Nesomyidae.


nesophontid

(zoology) Any mammal in the family Nesophontidae.


nesticid

(zoology) Any spider of the family Nesticidae.


nestorid

(zoology) Any member of family Nestoridae of parrot-like birds of New Zealand.


nettastomatid

(zoology) Any eel in the family Nettastomatidae.


nevrorthid

(zoology) Any lacewing in the family Nevrorthidae.


nicodamid

(zoology) Any spider in the family Nicodamidae.


nicoletiid

(zoology) Any of the primitive wingless insects in the family Nicoletiidae.


nicomiid

(zoology) Any treehopper in the family Nicomiidae, a synonym of the Membracidae.


nicothoid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Nicothoidae.


niphargid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Niphargidae.


nitidulid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Nitidulidae.


noasaurid

(zoology) Any dinosaur in the family Noasauridae.


nocticolid

(zoology) Any cockroach in the family Nocticolidae.


noetiid

(zoology) Any member of the family Noetiidae of clams.


nogodinid

(zoology) Any fulgoroid planthopper in the family Nogodinidae.


nolid

(zoology) Any member of the family Nolidae of moths.


nomeid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Nomeidae, the driftfishes.


quercypsittid

(zoology) Any extinct parrot in the family Quercypsittidae.


nosematid

(zoology) Any member of the family Nosematidae of organisms classified variously as in the taxonomic kingdoms Fungi or Protozoa.


nosodendrid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Nosodendridae.


nostoceratid

(zoology) Any ammonite in the family Nostoceratidae.


notacanthid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Notacanthidae of deep-sea spiny eels.


noterid

(zoology) Any member of family Noteridae of burrowing water beetles.


notharctid

(zoology) Any extinct prosimian in the family †Notharctidae.


nothosaurid

(zoology) Any extinct reptile of the family Nothosauridae.


notodontid

(zoology) Any member of the Notodontidae, whose caterpillars have a horn-like hump on the back.


notohippid

(zoology) Any toxodont in the family Notohippidae.


notonectid

(entomology) Any member of the family Notonectidae, the backswimmers.


notopterid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Notopteridae, the featherbacks.


notoryctid

(zoology) A marsupial mole, of the family Notoryctidae.


notostylopid

(zoology) Any notoungulate in the family Notostylopidae.


notosuchid

(zoology) Any extinct crocodylomorph in the family Notosuchidae.


notosudid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Notosudidae, the waryfishes.


nototheniid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Nototheniidae of cod icefishes.


nuculanid

(zoology) Any clam in the family Nuculanidae.


nuculid

(zoology) Any member of the family Nuculidae of nut clams.


numidid

(zoology) Any member of the Numididae; a guineafowl.


nycteribiid

(zoology) Any fly of the family Nycteribiidae.


nycterid

(zoology) Any member of the family Nycteridae of slit-faced bats.


nyctibiid

(zoology) Any potoo in the family Nyctibiidae.


nyctiphruretid

(zoology) Any parareptile in the family Nyctiphruretidae.


nyctosaurid

(zoology) Any pterosaur in the family Nyctosauridae.


nymphomyiid

(zoology) Any fly in the family Nymphomyiidae.


nymphonid

(zoology) Any sea spider in the family Nymphonidae.


obolid

(zoology) Any member of the family Obolidae of lamp shells.


oceanitid

southern storm petrel
southern storm petrel

(zoology) Any member of the family Oceanitidae of southern storm petrels or Austral storm petrels.


ochlesid

(zoology) Any member of the family Ochlesidae of small shrimp-like crustaceans.


ochodaeid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Ochodaeidae.


ochotonid

(zoology) Any member of the family Ochotonidae, the pikas.


ochterid

(zoology) Any insect in the family Ochteridae.


ochyroceratid

(zoology) Any spider in the family Ochyroceratidae.


octodontid

From Octodon + -id < Ancient Greek ὀκτώ (oktṓ, “eight”) + ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”), according to the wear pattern of the teeth of these rodents, which resembles a figure 8.

(zoology) Any of the Octodontidae, a family of rodents including the common degu (Octodon degus) and 12 other South American species


octopodid

(zoology) Any octopus in the family Octopodidae.


octopoteuthid

(zoology) Any squid in the family Octopoteuthidae.


oculinid

(zoology) Any of the family Oculinidae of stony corals.


ocypodid

(zoology) Any crab in the family Ocypodidae.


odiid

(zoology) Any member of the family Odiidae (now Ochlesidae) of small shrimp-like crustaceans.


odiniid

(zoology) Any fly of the family Odiniidae.


odontaspidid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Odontaspididae.


odontasterid

(zoology) Any starfish in the family Odontasteridae


odontobutid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Odontobutidae.


odontodactylid

(zoology) Any mantis shrimp in the family Odontodactylidae (Odontodactylus spp.).


odontophorid

(zoology) Any quail in the family Odontophoridae.


odontopleurid

(paleontology) Any trilobite of the order Odontopleurida.


odostomiid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Odostomiidae, now considered to be the pyramidellid subfamily Odostomiinae.


oecobiid

(zoology) Any spider in the family Oecobiidae.


oecophorid

(zoology) Any in the family Oecophoridae of concealer moths.


oedemerid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Oedemeridae.


oedicerotid

(zoology) Any amphipod in the family Oedicerotidae.


oedipodid

(zoology) Any grasshopper in the family Oedipodidae, now considered to be the acridid subfamily Oedipodinae.


oestrid

(zoology) Any member of the family Oestridae, the botflies.


ogcocephalid

(zoology) Any member of the family Ogcocephalidae.


oldfieldthomasiid

(zoology) Any notoungulate mammal in the family Oldfieldthomasiidae.


oleacinid

(zoology) Any snail in the family Oleacinidae.


lepto

(informal, biology) Abbreviation of leptospira.


karyochrome

(cytology, dated) A type of neuron that has a nucleus that stains intensely


karyoclasis

(cytology) the disintegration of a cell's nucleus


karyoevolution

(biology) A type of evolution that results in changes to the karyotype of organisms.


karyomegaly

As the cell grows the large size of the nucleus appears to diminish, but in some cases karyomegaly exists, as in the mantle of Zonites, of slugs, and of Prosobranchs, the circumcerebral tissue of snails, and the tissue around the otocyst in Cyclostoma.

1895 April 7, “Connective Cells of Gastropods”, in Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, volume 15, number 2, page 167:

In addition, mammary glands in transgenic mice exhivited an increased occurrence of multinucleated cells, and some nuclei were enlarged (karyomegaly), with a hyperchromatic appearance.

1999, Andrea Manni, Endocrinology of Breast Cancer, page 85:

For the few chemical compounds where the histogenesis of renal adenocarcinoma has been studied in detail, karyomegaly is often seen as one of the earliest cellular alterations which can be related to carcinogen exposure.

2013, G. W. Richter, International Review of Experimental Pathology: Kidney Disease, page 368:

(cytology) The condition of having an enlarged cell nucleus.


olenellid

(zoology) Any trilobite in the family Olenellidae.


olethreutid

(zoology) Any moth in the family Olethreutidae, now considered to be the tortricid subfamily Olethreutinae


oligacanthorhynchid

(zoology) Any acanthocephalan in the family Oligacanthorhynchidae.


oligopithecid

(zoology) Any extinct monkey in the family Oligopithecidae.


olivellid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Olivellidae, now considered to be part of the family Olividae.


olivid

(zoology) Any sea snail in the family Olividae.


ologamasid

(zoology) Any mite in the family Ologamasidae.


olyrid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Olyridae, which may be a synonym for the Bagridae.


omalogyrid

(zoology) Any member of the Omalogyridae.


ommastrephid

(zoology) Any squid in the family Ommastrephidae.


ommatid

(zoology) Any beetle in the family Ommatidae.


omosudid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Omosudidae, which consists of a single known species, the deep-sea hammerjaw (Omosudis lowii).


omphalotrochid

(zoology) Any extinct gastropod in the family Omphalotrochidae.


oncaeid

(zoology) Any copepod in the family Oncaeidae.


onchidiid

(zoology) Any slug in the family Onchidiidae.


onchocercid

(zoology) Any nematode in the family Onchocercidae.


oncoceratid

(zoology) Any extinct nautiloid cephalopod in the family Oncoceratidae.


oncopodid

(zoology) Any harvestman/daddy longlegs in the family Oncopodidae, a synonym of the Sandokanidae.


oneirodid

(zoology) Any fish of the family Oneirodidae.


onuphid

(zoology) Any polychaete worm of the family Onuphidae.