genus cyamus

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   whale lice

   SynonymsCyamus

   Broaderarthropod genus

   Part ofAmphipoda

Questions about genus cyamus

What does genus cyamus mean?

genus cyamus means "whale lice".

What is another word for genus cyamus?

Close synonyms include Cyamus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is genus cyamus a common word?

genus cyamus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.