Crossword-Solution: PHASMID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Phasmid | n. | Any orthopterous insect of the family Phasmidae, as a leaf insect or a stick insect. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PHASMID | anagram | DAMPISH |
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| Walking Stick | 5 answers |
| Walking-stick | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with PHASMID (5)
Prestwich, were also true insects, such as beetles of the family _Curculionidæ,_ a neuropterous insect of the genus _Corydalis,_ and another related to the _Phasmidæ,_ have been found.
The whole family of the Phasmidæ, or spectres, to which this insect belongs, is more or less imitative, and a great number of the species are called "walking-stick insects," from their singular resemblance to twigs and branches.
The beetles appear to have been of the wood and seed devouring kinds, and would probably have found their food among the conifers; the _Phasmidæ_ and grasshoppers would have lived on the tender shoots of the less rigid plants their contemporaries; the _Tinea_, probably on ligneous or cottony fibre.
Probably so called from its mimicking, or appearing like, inanimate objects.] (Zoöl.) Defn: Any orthopterous insect of the family Phasmidæ, as a leaf insect or a stick insect.
Walsh informs me that the adult male of _Spectrum femoratum_ (one of the Phasmidæ) “is of a shining brownish-yellow colour; the adult female being of a dull, opaque, cinereous-brown; the young of both sexes being green.” Lastly, I may mention that the male of one curious kind of cricket[472] is furnished with “a long membranous appendage, which falls over the face like a veil;” but whether this serves as an ornament is not known.