Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Extended forward and outward.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Extended forward; stretched forth horizontally; antrorse; prorsal.
- To thrust out horizontally.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Extended horizontally; stretched out.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
stretched (out or forward) - verb To stretch out or forward
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Palpi as long as the breadth of the head; second joint obliquely ascending; third porrect, rather shorter than the second, with which it forms an obtuse angle.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Palpi porrect, short, not extending beyond the head; third joint elongate-conical, acute, about half the length of the second.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Palpi porrect, extending a little beyond the head.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Antennae longer and more porrect; second submarginal cell as long as the third; abdomen broader at the base, its ventral surface concave; hypopygium scarcely carinated laterally, and pygidium prominent and deeply emarginate, its lateral edges produced into acute teeth.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855
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Megamerus "has an affinity to Sagra, but differs from that genus in having setiform antennae, porrect mandibles, and securiform palpi, its habit is also totally different, and more like that of some of those insects which belong to the heterogeneous magazine called Prionus; it is undoubtedly the most singular and novel form in Captain King's collection."
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855
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