Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In entomology: In Lepidoptera, a genus of bombycid moths, of the family Psychidæ.
- noun In Diptera, a genus of tanystomine flies, of the family Bombyliidæ, not having the antennæ? wide apart at the base. Also called
Lomatia and Stygides. Meigen.
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Examples
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Ita saevit haec stygia ministra ut urbes subvertat aliquando, deleat populos, provincias alioqui florentes redigat in solitudines, mortales vero miseros in profunda miseriarum valle miserabiliter immergat.
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Each crime now had to Mean Something, each new atrocity held up as the next marker on our descent into uncharted depths of stygia.
Not the End of the World Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1998
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Family Common Name Species Alcedinidae Spangled kookaburra Dacelo tyro Alcedinidae Little paradise-kingfisher Tanysiptera hydrocharis Sylviidae Fly River grassbird Megalurus albolimbatus Estrildidae Grey-crowned munia Lonchura nevermanni Estrildidae Black munia Lonchura stygia An asterisk signifies that the species 'range is limited to this ecoregion.
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