Pseudos to midæ (sudostomide)

pl. [NL. (Gervais, 1848), 〈 Pseudos tom a + -idæ.] A family of American rodents, with external cheek-pouches, named from the genus Pseudos tom a; the pocket-rats and pocket-mice, now di ociated in the two families Geomyidæ and Saccomyidæ; the pseudos tomes. pseudos to mine (sū-do-stō'min), a. [ pseudos tomos is (sudo-sto-mo's is), n. [NL., pseudos tom otic (sūdō-sto-mot'ik), a. [ dostomes or false oscules, as a sponge. pseudos to mous (sū-dos'tō-mus), a. [ In crys pseudosymmetry (sū-dō-sim'e-tri), n. tal., false symmetry; the appearance of having a higher degree of symmetry than is actually the case, usually produced through twinning. See twin. Pseudo tetramer a (sūdō-te-tram'e-rä), n. pl. [NL. (West wood, 1839): see pseudo tetramerous. ] In West wood's system of cla ification, one of those beetles in which the tarsi are five-jointed, four divisions of Coleoptera, including but the fourth joint is minute and concealed between the lobes of the preceding. It is equivalent to the Crypt open tamer a of Bur meister and the Subpenta mera of Latreille. It includes the large and important groups Rhynchophora, Longicorn i a, and Phytophaga. pseudo tetramerous (sūdō-te-tram'e-rus), a. [