Meaning of tungid | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A racial classification used in physical anthropology as a Mongoloid subrace found in Inner Mongolia and parts of Siberia.
   historical
2. Any flea of the family Tungidae.

Examples

“Tungid fleas, one of which is commonly known as the sand flea, can cause such damage to a person. The tungid female embeds itself into the skin of the host until just the end of the abdomen is exposed. It swells to the size of a pea as its eggs develop.”

“These same features are likely to be much reduced in other fleas, such as tungids and sticktights, that attach more firmly to the host and feed for long periods at a particular site.”

“As well as fleas, which move freely in the home and pelage of the host, there are those, like the tungids (Tungidae) and alakurts (Vermipsyllidae), that burrow into its skin and become neosomic (Fig. 9.5).”

“The Mongolid (Tungid and north Sinid) strain of the prehistoric Japanese must, to a large extent, be attributed to arrivals from Korea by way of the Tsushima straits, attested to by finds of clay vessels with pointed bottoms and with roller-stamped décor such as were made at Sobatu (north Kyushu).”

“It is also presumable that the Tungids, who had some contact with the Proto-Chinese, might have adopted the plank-type sled of the latter which could replace their own, which was probably a bark sled.”

“The Yayoi are believed to be of Tungid stock and it is possible that northern mythology percolated to them in the regions of their origin.”

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