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Webster 1913 Edition
Sarcophagan
Sar-coph′a-gan
,Noun.
1.
(Zool.)
Any animal which eats flesh, especially any carnivorous marsupial.
2.
(Zool.)
Any fly of the genus Sarcophaga.
Definition 2024
sarcophagan
sarcophagan
English
Noun
sarcophagan (plural sarcophagans)
- (zoology) Any fly of the genus Sarcophaga.
- 1964, Advances in Insect Physiology, volume 2:
- This could prove a very important experiment: our difficulty is that there is no precise homology between the sarcophagan cuticle and that of other orders of insect; from the work of Wolfe (1954) and Dennell (1946) the dipteran epicuticle cannot be treated as having separate laminae of cuticulin and free lipid, such as we believe to be the state of affairs in other insects.
- 1968, Journal of the Arnold Arboretum, page 155:
- Other insects, including a sarcophagan fly, a gnat, a sciarid fly, and two harmless mosquitoes dwell in the pitchers.