chalcidadj.n.
/ˈkalsɪd/ Entomology.
A. adj.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the superfamily Chalcidoidea of the order Hymenoptera.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [adjective] > belonging to division Petiolata > of or relating to superfamily Chalcidoidea
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1893 E. A. Ormerod Rep. Observ. Injurious Insects 16th Rep. 66 We should get no good by endeavouring to rear these Chalcid flies.
1959 J. Clegg Freshwater Life Brit. Isles (ed. 2) 227 Two genera of Chalcid Wasps are also aquatic.
B. n.
A member of this superfamily.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Parasitica > member of superfamily Chalcidoidea
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1893 E. A. Ormerod Rep. Observ. Injurious Insects 16th Rep. 66 The little Chalcids were a species of Entedon.
1895 Cambr. Nat. Hist. V. 545 In the cells of the same bee Newport discovered another curious parasitic Chalcid, Anthophorabia retusa.
1957 E. B. Ford Butterflies (ed. 3) vi. 111 Chalcids are stouter insects than are Ichneumons.
Derivatives
chalˈcidian adj.2
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [adjective] > belonging to division Petiolata > of or relating to superfamily Chalcidoidea
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1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 49 Parasitic hymenoptera of the chalcidian group.
ˈchalcidid adj.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [adjective] > belonging to division Petiolata > of or relating to superfamily Chalcidoidea
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1892 Proc. U.S. National Mus. 1891 14 571 Chalcidid parasites of the Hemiptera-Heteroptera are very rare.
ˈchalcidid n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Parasitica > member of superfamily Chalcidoidea
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1891 Proc. U.S. National Mus. 14 570 I know no case in which a chalcidid is a parasite of a proctotrypid.
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adj.n.1882