Word Meanings - POSTFURCA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the internal thoracic processes of the sternum of an insect.

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• INSECTATOR
  A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic. Bailey.
• INTERNALLY
  1. Inwardly; within the enveloping surface, or the boundary of a thing; within the body; beneath the surface. 2. Hence: Mentally; spiritually. Jer. Taylor.
• INSECTION
  A cutting in; incisure; incision.
• INSECTATION
  The act of pursuing; pursuit; harassment; persecution. Sir T. More.
• THORACIC
  Of or pertaining to the thorax, or chest. Thoracic duct , the great trunk of the lymphatic vessels, situated on the ventral side of the vertebral column in the thorax and abdomen. See Illust. of Lacteal.
• INSECTOLOGER
  An entomologist.
• INSECTIVORA
  1. An order of mammals which feed principally upon insects. Note: They are mostly of small size, and their molar teeth have sharp cusps. Most of the species burrow in the earth, and many of those of cold climates hibernate in winter. The order
• INSECTIVOROUS
  Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous. The term is applied: to
• INTERNALITY
  The state of being internal or within; interiority.
• INTERNAL
  Lying toward the mesial plane; mesial. Internal angle , an interior angle. See under Interior. -- Internal gear , a gear in which the teeth project inward from the rim instead of outward. Syn. -- Inner; interior; inward; inland; inside. (more
• INSECTILE
  Pertaining to, or having the nature of, insects. Bacon.
• INSECTARY
  A place for keeping living insects. -- In`sec*ta"ri*um, n. Etym:
• INSECT
  1. Of or pertaining to an insect or insects. 2. Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
• INTERNAL-COMBUSTION; INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINE
  Designating, or pertaining to, any engine (called an Internal- combustion engine) in which the heat or pressure energy necessary to produce motion is developed in the engine cylinder, as by the explosion of a gas, and not in a separate chamber,
• INSECTED
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or resembling, an insect. Howell.
• INSECTOLOGY
  Entomology.
• INSECTIVORE
  One of the Insectivora.
• INSECTICIDE
  An agent or preparation for destroying insects; an insect powder. -- In*sec"ti*ci`dal, a.
• STERNUM
  A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone. Note: The sternum is connected with the ribs or the pectorial girdle, or
• THORACICA
  A division of cirripeds including those which have six thoracic segments, usually bearing six pairs of cirri. The common barnacles are examples.
• METATHORACIC
  Of or pertaining to the metathorax.
• PROTHORACIC
  Of or pertaining to the prothorax.
• EPISTERNUM
  One of the lateral pieces next to the sternum in the thorax of insects. (more info) A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle. Same as Epiplastron.
• HYPOSTERNUM
  See HYPOPLASTRON
• PRESTERNUM
  The anterior segment of the sternum; the manubrium. -- Pre*ster"nal, a.
• PROSTERNUM
  The ventral plate of the prothorax of an insect.
• HYOSTERNUM
  See HYOPLASTRON
• MESOTHORACIC
  Of or pertaining to the mesothorax.
• OMOSTERNUM
  The anterior element of the sternum which projects forward from between the clavicles in many batrachians and is usually tipped with cartilage. In many mammals, an interarticular cartilage, or bone, between the sternum and the clavicle.