malacoderm
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek μαλακός (malakós, “soft”) + -derm.
Noun edit
malacoderm (plural malacoderms)
- (zoology, dated) One of a tribe of beetles (Malacodermata), with a soft and flexible body.
- The fireflies are malacoderms.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “malacoderm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)