S vs Phasmid - What's the difference?
s | phasmid |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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(entomology) Any insect of the order Phasmatodea; the leaf insects and walking sticks.
*1993 , (Rikki Ducornet), The Jade Cabinet , Dalkey Archive Press, p. 19:
*:A giant phasmid (or stick insect) from India whose cage was over two metres tall spent long hours standing upon a perpendicular branch and staring into Mother's eyes.
(nematology) Either of the two caudal chemoreceptors in some nematodes.
A phagemid.
