Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cyclorrhaphan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cy-clor-rhaphan
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any fly of the taxon Cyclorrhapha

Example Sentences

"Because circumversion originated in the Platypezidae and persists through the highest forms of the Schizophora, because it is featured in the lowest and among the highest cyclorrhaphans, we are convinced that the suborder Cyclorrhapha is properly considered to be a monophyletic group."
"The apparent oldest cyclorrhaphan, Opetiala shatalkani, is a compression fossil wing from the Purbeck of England (ca. 140 MYO), and it precedes other early cyclorrhaphans by about 10 MY."
"Unlike the proboscides of Lower brachyceran lineages, which are continuous with the head capsule and tend to dangle (Matsuda 1965), the proboscides of most cyclorrhaphan species are suspended by a membranous region and divided into three functional parts: the basiproboscis (rostrum), medioproboscis (haustellum), and distiproboscis (labellum), each of which is defined by internal muscles but also shares muscles with the other regions (Graham-Smith 1930; Lall and Davies 1971)."

Etymology

From taxonomic name Cyclorrhapha + -an.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: mul-tax:Cyclorrhapha

Inflected Forms

cyclorrhaphans (plural)

Synonyms

circular-seamed fly

Questions

What does cyclorrhaphan mean?: Any fly of the taxon Cyclorrhapha
Where does cyclorrhaphan come from?: From taxonomic name Cyclorrhapha + -an.

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