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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In entomology, the typical genus of the family Nitidulidæ, established by Fabricius in 1775. The species are wide-spread, but not numerous, and are found chiefly on carrion.
  • noun In ornithology, a genus of Indian flycatchers, containing N. hodgsoni.

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  • The team examined fossilized tooth enamel of leopards, lions, and spotted hyenas, in addition to three extinct species: Megantereon; Dino felis, a false saber-toothed cat; and Chasmoporithetes nitidula, an extinct hunting hyena.

    Ancient Enemies 2007

  • _Anthaxia nitidula_, passes his larval existence between the wood and the bark.

    The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • Excipula cpidcrmidis.glandicola. liliorum.majuscula. nitidula.rumicicola. ulmicola. viticola.

    Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1771

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