phasma

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noun

A phasmid.

OriginLatin phasma →
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Meanings

nounphasma (plural phasmas)

plural phasmas

  1. obsoleteA phasmid.

    The true Paradise Birds are omnivorous, feeding on fruits and insects - of the former preferring the small figs; of the latter, grasshoppers, locusts, and phasmas, as well as cockroaches and caterpillars.

    1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 395

Origin

  1. Latinphasma“ghost, spirit”
  2. Englishphasma

From Latin phasma (“ghost, spirit”).

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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