WHAT DOES INSECTEAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?
Definition of insectean in the English dictionary
The definition of insectean in the dictionary is of or relating to any small air-breathing arthropod of the class Insecta, having a body divided into head, thorax, and abdomen, three pairs of legs, and two pairs of wings. Insects comprise about five sixths of all known animal species, with a total of over one million named species.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INSECTEAN»
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American Journal of Science: The First Scientific Journal in ...
On the Homologies of the Insectean and Crustacean Types ; by James D. Dana.
In a note to the article on cephalization, at page 6 of this volume, a brief statement
is made by the writer on the relations between the structures of Insects and ...
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The American Journal of Science and Arts
On the Homologies of the Insectean and Crustacean Types ; by James D. Dana.
In a note to the article on cephalization, at page 6 of thi3 volume, a brief
statement is made by the writer on the relations between the structures of Insects
and ...
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The annals and magazine of natural history, zoology, botany ...
... insectean body is characterized by the relative development of the three
elements of the arthromere. In the abdomen the upper (tergite) and under (
sternite) surfaces are most equally developed, while the pleural line is reduced to
a ...
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The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany, ...
While in the lower Insects the loss of wings involves apparently a total change in
the form of the body, in the Hymenoptera this change is remarkably less than in
any other insects, and the tripartite form of the insectean body is more strongly ...
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Annals and Magazine of Natural History
119), in which the author supports the opinion that, of all existing forms, the
Orthoptera approach most closely to the primitive Insectean type, regarding the
Wingless Blattidse as the most typical in their form; and a hypothetical description
at the ...
With the small information now existing respecting insectean locomotion, such
reference would be premature. It is very obvious that the selection must be made
from groups frequenting the sea-shore at low tide. Considering the lightness of ...
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Straws and Prayer-Books
... supporters of the Puritan tradition in letters, — are, beyond question, made up
of peculiarly filthy and senseless little creatures acting after the law of their
insectean kind. Yet they are also innumerable and poisonous : and 142 STRAWS
AND ...
James Branch Cabell, 2003
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Ants: Their Structure, Development and Behavior
It would seem, therefore) that the pedunculate bodies must be subjected to a
more critical morphological and physiological study before they can be accepted
as the insectean analogue of the human fore-brain. The Ventral Nerve-Cord.
William Morton Wheeler, 1960
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English Language Word Builder
... GOGGLEBOX GRAPESHOT HEARTSICK HETEROTIC HUBRISTIC
INSECTEAN LEGGINGED LUMINARIA MARROWFAT MONKEYPOD
MUSKETOON ORGIASTIC PHENYLENE PLOUGHBOY RATTLEBAG
RIBAUDRED SCRAPEGUT ...
The homologies of the Insectean and Crustacean types. Ibid., vol. 36, pp. 233-
235. Certain parallel relations between the classes of vertebrates and some
characteristics of the reptilian birds. Ibid., pp. 315-321. 1863-1864. The
classification of ...
