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Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology By John Bernhard Smith
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
Agglomerate: heaped or massed together. Agglutinate: stuck or glued together; welded into one mass. Aggregated: crowded together as closely as possible. Agnathous: without jaws; specifically applied to those Neuropteroid series in which the mouth structures are obsolescent. Aileron: the scale covering the base of primaries in some insects; see tegulae in Diptera = alula and squama, q.v. Air-sacs or vesicles: pouch-like expansions of tracheal tubes in heavy insects, capable of inflation and supposed to lessen specific gravity. Air-tube: a respiratory siphon. Ala -ae: a wing or wings. Alar appendage: see alulet. Alar frenum: a small ligament crossing the supra-alar groove toward the root of the wing: Hymenoptera. Alary: relating to the wings: applied also to the wing muscles of heart. Alate -us: winged; with lobes similar to wings in appearance though not necessarily in function.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John Bernhard Smith When, some time since, in consequence of continuing demands, the Brooklyn Entomological Society resolved to publish a new edition of its Explanation of Terms used in Entomology, and entrusted the writer and two associates with the task of preparing the same, it was believed that a little revision of definitions, the dropping of a few obsolete terms and the addition of a few lately proposed, would be all that was necessary. It was to be a light task to fill idle time in summer, report to be made in fall. Two years have passed since that time; the associates have dropped by the way; the manuscript contains five times the number of ...
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