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Alitrunk
noun · 78% connection
The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: orders, myriapods, including, centipeds, single.
Amphipoda
n. pl. · 78% connection
A numerous group of fourteen -- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: orders, myriapods, including, centipeds, single.
Aptera
n. pl. · 78% connection
Insects without wings, constituting the seventh Linnaen order of insects, an artificial group, which included Crustacea, spiders, cent…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: orders, myriapods, including, centipeds, single.
Attachment
noun · 78% connection
Something attached; some adjunct attached to an instrument, machine, or other object; as, a sewing machine attachment (i. e., a device…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: orders, myriapods, including, centipeds, single.
Bat
noun · 78% connection
One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated finger…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: orders, myriapods, including, centipeds, single.
Centipede
noun · 78% connection
chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: orders, myriapods, including, centipeds, single.
Chilognatha
n. pl. · 78% connection
One of the two principal orders of myriapods. They have numerous segments, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs, which are at…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: orders, myriapods, including, centipeds, single.
Cistron
noun · 78% connection
(genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the codi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: orders, myriapods, including, centipeds, single.
Coleoptera
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: orders, myriapods, including, centipeds, single.
Contempt
noun · 78% connection
Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contempt…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: orders, myriapods, including, centipeds, single.
Crop
noun · 78% connection
That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a single season; especially,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: orders, myriapods, including, centipeds, single.
Crus
noun · 78% connection
Often applied, especially in the plural, to parts which are supposed to resemble a pair of legs; as, the crura of the diaphragm, a pai…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: orders, myriapods, including, centipeds, single.
Curvet
noun · 78% connection
A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises h…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: orders, myriapods, including, centipeds, single.
Diplopoda
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of myriapods having two pairs of legs on each segment; the Chilognatha.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: orders, myriapods, including, centipeds, single.
Dipteran
noun · 78% connection
insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: orders, myriapods, including, centipeds, single.
Doric
adjective · 78% connection
Belonging to, or resembling, the oldest and simplest of the three orders of architecture used by the Greeks, but ranked as second of t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: orders, myriapods, including, centipeds, single.
Elytrum
noun · 78% connection
One of the anterior pair of wings in the Coleoptera and some other insects, when they are thick and serve only as a protection for the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: orders, myriapods, including, centipeds, single.
Factor
noun · 78% connection
(genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the codi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: orders, myriapods, including, centipeds, single.
