Word Meanings - CHAETOTAXY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The arrangement of bristles on an insect.

Related words: (words related to CHAETOTAXY)

• INSECTATOR
  A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic. Bailey.
• INSECTION
  A cutting in; incisure; incision.
• INSECTATION
  The act of pursuing; pursuit; harassment; persecution. Sir T. More.
• 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
• 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
  One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta. Note: The hexapod insects pass through three stages during their growth, viz., the larva, pupa, and imago or adult, but in some of the orders the larva differs little from the imago, except
• 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.
• ARRANGEMENT
  1. The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form. 2. The manner or result of arranging; system of parts disposed in due order; regular and systematic
• INSECTA
  One of the classes of Arthropoda, including those that have one pair of antennæ, three pairs of mouth organs, and breathe air by means of tracheæ, opening by spiracles along the sides of the body. In this sense it includes the Hexapoda,
• MISARRANGEMENT
  Wrong arrangement.
• DISARRANGEMENT
  The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged; confusion; disorder. Cowper.
• REARRANGEMENT
  The act of rearranging, or the state of being rearranged.