Crossword-Solution: MELOID
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MELOID | anagram | DEMILO, MOILED |
We have 3 clues for the answer “MELOID”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Blister beetle. | 1 answer |
| type of long-legged beetle | 1 answer |
| BEETLE, type of | 31 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with MELOID (5)
Scarabidoid: applied to that stage of a meloid larva in which it resembles a white grub or Scarabid larva.
The Sitares and Meloes belong to the same family, that of the Meloidæ.[2] Their strange transformations must probably extend throughout the group; indeed, I had the good fortune to discover a third example, which I have not hitherto been able to study in all its details after twenty-five years of investigation.
The larva of the Meloidæ, therefore, undergo four moults before attaining the nymphal state; and after each moult their characteristics alter most profoundly.
Thus, to the ordinary metamorphoses which make a Beetle pass successively through the stages of larva, nymph and perfect insect, the Meloidæ add others which repeatedly transform the larva's exterior, without introducing any modification of its viscera.
The Sitares, the Meloes, the Zonites and apparently other Meloidæ, possibly all of them, are in their earliest infancy parasites of the harvesting Bees.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1952–1966).