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GENUS CYAMUS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Whale lice

Synonyms:

Cyamus; genus Cyamus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Cyamus" is a kind of...):

arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "genus Cyamus"):

whale louse (amphipod crustacean parasitic on cetaceans)

Holonyms ("genus Cyamus" is a member of...):

Amphipoda; order Amphipoda (small flat-bodied semiterrestrial crustaceans: whale lice; sand-hoppers; skeleton shrimp)

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