Word Meanings - POSTSCUTELLUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The hindermost dorsal piece of a thoracic somite of an insect; the plate behind the scutellum.

Related words: (words related to POSTSCUTELLUM)

• PLATEFUL
  Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.
• INSECTATOR
  A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic. Bailey.
• SCUTELLUM
  A rounded apothecium having an elevated rim formed of the proper thallus, the fructification of certain lichens. The third of the four pieces forming the upper part of a thoracic segment of an insect. It follows the scutum, and is followed by the
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• DORSALLY
  On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad.
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• PLATEN
  The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made. Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression. The movable table of a machine tool,
• PLATE-GILLED
  Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks.
• HINDERMOST; HINDMOST
  Furthest in or toward the rear; last. "Rachel and Joseph hindermost." Gen. xxxiii. 2. (more info) superlative from the same source as the comparative hinder. See
• PIECEMEAL
  1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
• PLATE
  A piece of money, usually silver money. "Realms and islands were as plates dropp'd from his pocket." Shak. 7. A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a
• INSECTION
  A cutting in; incisure; incision.
• PLATERESQUE
  Resembling silver plate; -- said of certain architectural ornaments.
• 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
• PIECELESS
  Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
• SOMITE
  One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is composed; somatome; metamere. -- So*mit`ic, a.
• INSECTIVOROUS
  Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous. The term is applied: to
• METATHORACIC
  Of or pertaining to the metathorax.
• WET PLATE
  A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after
• PROTHORACIC
  Of or pertaining to the prothorax.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• CONTEMPLATE
  contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
• VEILED PLATE
  A fogged plate.
• FOOTPLATE
  See
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• CODPIECE
  A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• TERNEPLATE
  Thin iron sheets coated with an alloy of lead and tin; -- so called because made up of three metals.
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
• BREASTPLATE
  A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See
• BACKPIECE; BACKPLATE
  A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.