cyamid
English edit
Etymology edit
From family name Cyamidae.
Noun edit
cyamid (plural cyamids)
- (zoology) A crustacean of the family Cyamidae; a whale louse.
- 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 271:
- These are callosities: roughened skin caused by infestations of what ‘lice’ (which are actually parasitic crustaceans called cyamids less than an inch long that feed on flakes of skin).