Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Covered; protected; especially, in zoology, covered with a hard shelly case.
- In entomology, concealed under a neighboring part: specifically said of the hemielytra of a hemipterous insect when they are covered by the greatly enlarged and shield-like scutellum, as in the family Scutelleridæ: opposed to detected.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Covered; protected.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Covered with a hard chitinous case, as the pupa of certain flies; also called
obtect .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
covered ;protected - adjective zoology Covered with a
hard chitinous case , like thepupa of certainfiles .
Etymologies
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Latin obtectus, past participle of obtegere to cover over.
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