Dytiscus

noun

Dy·​tis·​cus

-skəs

: the type genus of Dytiscidae including many of the larger and better-known American diving beetles

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, irregular from Greek dytikos able to dive, from (assumed) Greek dytos (verbal of Greek dyein to enter, dive in, sink) + Greek -ikos -ic

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