Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A yokelike structure in certain insects that joins the forewings to the hind wings, keeping them together during flight.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the Brachiopoda, such as Spirifer, Cyrtina, etc., a part of the shelly internal supporting skeleton which joins the bases of the two spirally coiled ribbons or spiralia.
- noun A small lobe projecting backward from the basal inner margin of the fore wing in the Jugatæ, which extends under the costal margin of the hind wing, holding the pair together.
- noun In bot: A pair of leaflets in a compound leaf.
- noun A ridge on the carpel of an umbelliferous plant.
- noun [capitalized] A yellow star of magnitude 3.3, in the constellation of the Lyre;
γ Lyræ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of the ridges commonly found on the fruit of umbelliferous plants.
- noun A pair of the opposite leaflets of a pinnate plant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany One of the
ridges commonly found on thefruit ofumbelliferous plants . - noun botany A pair of
opposite leaflets of apinnate plant.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In the first year after birth the great wings and body unite, and the small wings extend inward above the anterior part of the body, and, meeting with each other in the middle line, form an elevated smooth surface, termed the jugum sphenoidale.
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Now Cordelia very well knew what "sub jugum" meant; but her eyes, at the moment, were divided between her book and Genevieve's flushed cheeks, and so saw, apparently, but half of the word "jugum".
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Paris, who published the Histoire de Chams – Eddine et Nour – Eddine with Maghrabi punctuation (Paris, Hachette, 1852) remarks the similarity of this word to Tazza and a number of other whimsical coincidences as Zauj, jugum; Inkár, negare; matrah, matelas;
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Northern Brazil, cujus jugum sternitur in amoenissimam planitiem, &c. or that of
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Et in gladio tuo vives, et fratri tuo servies: et erit, quando dominaberis, franges jugum ejus a collo tuo.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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Postremo illud affectus omnes atque ipsum appetitum rebellione infecit; haec renovata sanctitas in ordinem cogit perturbatas affectiones, et ipsam rebellem concupiscentiam dominio spoliat, et quasi sub jugum mittit.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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Deinde Jugurtha postero die cum Aulo in colloquio verba facit: 'tametsi ipsum cum exercitu fame et ferro clausum tenet, [231] tamen se memorem humanarum rerum, si secum foedus faceret, incolumes omnes sub jugum missurum, [232] praeterea uti diebus decem
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Jugatae: that series of Lepidoptera in which there is a jugum instead of a frenulum to unite the wings in flight.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Claustrum: the structure uniting the wings in flight, whether by hooks, by a thickening of the margin, or by a jugum.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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[232] A _jugum_ was formed by two lances fixed in the ground, and a third fastened across them so as to form a gate.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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