Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ortalid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: or-tal-id
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A fly of the family Ortalidae (now Ulidiidae).

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"He exhibited, also, two rare ortalid flies which resemble ants in appearance, Myrmecomyia myrmecoides Loew and Odontomera ferruginea Macquart."
"The present paper is the result of a survey of the ortalid flies of the genus Pseudotephritis in the collections of the United States Biological Survey and the United States National Museum collection."
"Although this family has some forms transgressive to the ortalids, it consists of a rather uniform monophyletic group, having not only morphological but also biological features in common."

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

ortalids (plural)

Synonyms

ulidiid

Questions

What does ortalid mean?: A fly of the family Ortalidae (now Ulidiidae).

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