Word Meanings - MESOTHORAX - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The middle segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.
Related words: (words related to MESOTHORAX)
- MIDDLE
1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening. - 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 - ILLUSTROUS
Without luster. - COLEOPTERAN
One of the order of Coleoptera. - ILLUSTRIOUS
1. Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl. 2. Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened - 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 - MIDDLE-GROUND
That part of a picture between the foreground and the background. - MIDDLE-EARTH
The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak. - MIDDLEMAN
The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers. (more info) 1. An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, - ILLUSTRATIVELY
By way of illustration or elucidation. Sir T. Browne. - ILLUSTRATIVE
1. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate. 2. Making illustrious. - MIDDLER
One of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries. - 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 - MIDDLE-AGE
Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediæval. - MIDDLEMOST
Being in the middle, or nearest the middle; midmost. - ILLUSTRIOUSNESS
The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame. - ILLUSTRATION
1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct. 2. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, - ILLUSTRIOUSLY
In a illustrious manner; conspicuously; eminently; famously. Milton. - 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 - COLEOPTERA
An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles - 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.