Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of Chrysomelidæ or leaf-beetles. The prothorax is cylindrical, not margined at the sides; there are distinct postocular lobes; the prosternal sutures are obsolete; and the femora are not toothed. A few species inhabit North America. F. viticida (Walsh) is about 6 millimeters long, chestnut-brown, and densely covered with short whitish hair; it is very injurious to grape-vines, upon the foliage of which it feeds.
- noun A member of this grenus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of small beetles, of which one species (the grapevine Fidia,
F. longipes ) is very injurious to vines in America.
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Druso C.efare, C. Norbano C.nfulibus, decemitur Germanico triumphus, manente bello; quod quamquam in seftatem fumma ope parabat, initio veris, & repentino in C.ttos excurfu, prse - cepit: nam fpes inceiferat diflidere hoftem in Arminium ac Segeftem, infignem utrumque per - fidia in nos, aut fide.
C. Cornelii Taciti opera omnia Cornelius Tacitus , Henry Homer , Melchior Freinsheim 1790
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Leonora Imperatoris Soror RegmaGailiae Magifter ciuium Virntaenfis Auguftae VI - innnfta eft. mae et Norimbergae fid) fidia ad Turcas de -
Notitia historico-literaria de codicibvs manvscriptis in Bibliotheca liberi ac imperialis ... Benedictine abbey : Augsburg, Germany 1791
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