GENUS CYAMUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Cyamus mean? 

• GENUS CYAMUS (noun)
  The noun GENUS CYAMUS has 1 sense:

1. whale lice

  Familiarity information: GENUS CYAMUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CYAMUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Whale lice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Cyamus; genus Cyamus

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)