Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Situated in advance of the lower jaw, as a bone of some reptiles; predentary.

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  • Intercalary - ies: additional or inserted between others; as a vein: plural; added or supplementary longitudinal wing reins: see under specific headings; i.e. anterior, etc.: in Ephemerides, certain longitudinal veins between the 8th (anal) and 9th (1st maxillary) and not branches of either: in Diptera, the anterior intercalary (Loew) = the discoidal, and the posterior intercalary = the cubitus 1 of Comstock: applied to an evanescent sclerite in the embryo between antenna and mandible; also termed premandibular.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

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