Discs: the abdominal motor processes of coleopterous larve. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Cervical foramen: in coleopterous larvae - occipital foramen. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Achreioptera: ordinal term proposed for the coleopterous family. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
But I think he has learned something else of his coleopterous friends. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet at the Breakfast-Table] Reference
On the Australian species of the coleopterous genus Bolboceras, Xirby xxi. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the Linnean Society] Reference
Synopsis of the coleopterous family Paussidie, with descriptions of a new genus and some new species. xix. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the Linnean Society] Reference
Sitaris and Meloe, two genera of coleopterous insects, are referred to by Lubbock (op. cit., pages 63-64) as. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
We see the same fact in geographical distribution; for instance, in the land-shells and coleopterous insects of. From Wordnik.com. [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)] Reference
Most people are familiar with the phenomenon of "death-feigning," commonly seen in coleopterous insects, and in many spiders. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in La Plata] Reference
Athenaeum, he would notice a large, square, painted, brick house, in which lived a leading representative of old-fashioned coleopterous. From Wordnik.com. [A Mortal Antipathy: first opening of the new portfolio] Reference
Several grasshoppers, spiders, and some coleopterous insects were found, and upon another branch two small meadow-mice had been treated to the same terrible death. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference
Although comparatively free from pebbles or lumps of foreign matter, we detect in some of the coarser specimens small particles of mica and grains of other materials, and in one broken specimen the elytron of a small coleopterous insect. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 307-428] Reference
We see the same fact in geographical distribution; for instance, in the land-shells and coleopterous insects of Madeira having come to differ considerably from their nearest allies on the continent of Europe, whereas the marine shells and birds have remained unaltered. From Wordnik.com. [On the origin of species] Reference
We find similar relations between the existing inhabitants of distinct countries; for instance, the land-shells and coleopterous insects of Madeira have come to differ considerably from their nearest allies on the continent of Europe, whereas the marine shells and birds have remained unaltered. From Wordnik.com. [XI. On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings. On the Slow and Successive Appearance of New Species] Reference
The angels we think generally disappointing; they are for the most part diminutive in size, and the crossing of the extremities of the two wings that cover the feet, gives them a coleopterous, cockchafer look, which is not a little undignified; the colors of their plumes are somewhat coarse and dark -- one is covered with silky hair, instead of feathers. From Wordnik.com. [On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference
To test the truth of this anticipation I have arranged the plants of twelve countries, and the coleopterous insects of two districts, into two nearly equal masses, the species of the larger genera on one side, and those of the smaller genera on the other side, and it has invariably proved to be the case that a larger proportion of the species on the side of the larger genera present varieties, than on the side of the smaller genera. From Wordnik.com. [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)] Reference
To test the truth of this anticipation I have arranged the plants of twelve countries, and the coleopterous insects of two districts, into two nearly equal masses, the species of the larger genera on one side, and those of the smaller genera on the other side, and it has invariably proved to be the case that a larger proportion of the species on the side of the larger genera presented varieties, than on the side of the smaller genera. From Wordnik.com. [II. Variation under Nature. Species of the Larger Genera in Each Country Vary More Frequently Than the Species of the Smaller Genera] Reference
Hyacinth Cottage was a pretty place enough, a little too much choked round with bushes, and too much overrun with climbing-roses, which, in the season of slugs and rose-bugs, were apt to show so brown about the leaves and so coleopterous about the flowers, that it might be questioned whether their buds and blossoms made up for these unpleasant animal combinations, -- especially as the smell of whale-oil soap was very commonly in the ascendant over that of the roses. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Venner] Reference
96° to 98°; and at sunset it was 86° This is different from any thing we experienced in the interior, for these rains always bring down the mercury to 72° or even 68° There, too, we found a small black coleopterous insect, which stung like the mosquito, but injected less poison; it puts us in mind of that insect, which does not exist in the high lands we had left. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
Paussidsd, a family of coleopterous insects. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the Linnean Society] Reference
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