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Cryptotermes

noun

genus of dry wood termites; cosmopolitan in distribution; sometimes considered a subgenus of Kalotermes

• Syn: ↑genus Cryptotermes

• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Kalotermitidae, ↑family Kalotermitidae

• Member Meronyms: ↑powder-post termite, ↑Cryptotermes brevis

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\\|krip(ˌ)tō+\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from crypt- + Termes

: a cosmopolitan genus of dry-wood termites that is sometimes considered a subgenus of Kalotermes — see powder-post termite

Useful english dictionary. 2012.