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phasmid /phas·mid/ (faz´mid)
1. either of the two caudal chemoreceptors occurring in certain nematodes (Phasmidia).
2. any nematode containing phasmids.

phas·mid (fzmd)
n.
Either of a pair of caudal chemoreceptors occurring in nematodes of the class, Secernentea.

phasmid [faz´mid]
either of the two caudal chemoreceptors occurring in certain nematodes (Phasmidia).
any nematode containing phasmids.

phasmid
either of the two caudal chemoreceptors occurring in certain nematodes (Phasmidia).


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But the 3,000 or so species in an insect group called the phasmids take camouflage to an extreme, says Sonja Wedmann of the Institute for Paleontology in Bonn, Germany.
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