Word Meanings - BOMBYCID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like or pertaining to the genus Bombyx, or the family Bombycidæ.

FAMILY
A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
BOMBYCID
Like or pertaining to the genus Bombyx, or the family Bombycidæ.
BOMBYX
A genus of moths, which includes the silkworm moth. See Silkworm.
PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
GENUS
A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
SUBGENUS
A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
SUBFAMILY
One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.
SUPERFAMILY
A group intermediate between a family and a suborder.
APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach