Word Meanings - MANITRUNK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Insect.

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• INSECTATOR
  A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic. Bailey.
• ANTERIORITY
  The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope.
• THORAX
  The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal vertebræ, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest. Note: In
• SEGMENT
  A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration. A piece in the
• INSECTION
  A cutting in; incisure; incision.
• SEGMENTATION
  The act or process of dividing into segments; specifically , a self-division into segments as a result of growth; cell cleavage; cell multiplication; endogenous cell formation. Segmentation cavity , the cavity formed by the arrangement of the cells
• 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.
• SEGMENTAL
  1. Relating to, or being, a segment. Of or pertaining to the segments of animals; as, a segmental duct; segmental papillæ. Of or pertaining to the segmental organs. Segmental duct , the primitive duct of the embryonic excretory organs which gives
• 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.
• 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.
• ANTERIOR
  1. Before in time; antecedent. Antigonus, who was anterior to Polybius. Sir G. C. Lewis. 2. Before, or toward the front, in place; as, the anterior part of the mouth; -- opposed to posterior. Note: In comparative anatomy, anterior often signifies
• 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,
• PROTHORAX
  The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera.
• CEPHALOTHORAX
  The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax.
• HAEMATOTHORAX
  See HEMOTHORAX
• BISEGMENT
  One of tow equal parts of a line, or other magnitude.
• PYOPNEUMOTHORAX
  Accumulation of air, or other gas, and of pus, in the pleural cavity.
• PNEUMATOTHORAX
  See PNEUMOTHORAX
• HYDROTHORAX
  An accumulation of serous fluid in the cavity of the chest.
• MESOTHORAX
  The middle segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.
• PNEUMOTHORAX
  A condition in which air or other gas is present in the cavity of the chest; -- called also pneumatothorax.