Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various small soft-bodied chewing insects of the order Psocoptera, which includes the booklice. The psocids are sometimes classified together with the parasitic lice in the order Psocodea.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A member of the corrodentian family Psocidæ.
- Having the characters of or belonging to the family Psocidæ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any member of the Psocidae.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small winged insect living on the bark and leaves of trees and feeding on e.g. fungi and decaying plant matter
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From New Latin Psōcidae, family name, from Psōcus, type genus, from Greek psōkhos, dust.]
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Examples
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I can't say as I know anything about exactly what type of psocid they are, but the feature that I immediately noticed that distinguished your beasties as psocids were the super-long antennae.
Is it an isopteran? Is it a zorapteran? It's a psocopteran! AYDIN 2008
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KUCEROVA, Z. and ZUSKA, J. (1991) Susceptibility of the psocid pest Liposcelis bostrychophilus to methoprene and to a new juvenoid.pp. 565-570.
Chapter 10 1994
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" You press your eye against the eyepiece until, like the row of stiff bristles on the leg of a psocid, your lash rakes and combs the optical glass.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994
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