Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little scale.
- noun In botany: A scale of secondary order or reduced size.
- noun Same as
lodicule . Alsosquamella . Alsosquamule .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) One of the little hypogynous scales found in the flowers of grasses; a lodicule.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany One of the little
hypogynous scales found in theflowers ofgrasses ; alodicule .
Etymologies
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Alulae: Diptera; a pair of membranous scales above the halteres, behind the root of the wing, one above or before the other; the anterior attached to the wing and moving with it, the posterior fastened to the thorax and stationary; see calyptra; squama; squamula; lobulus; axillary lobe; aileron; scale; tegulae: Coleoptera;
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Patagium - ia: in Lepidoptera, those sclerites that cover the base of primaries: often used as synonymous with tegula and squamula, q.v.: assigned by some writers to the pro -, by others to the meso-thorax: homologized with the paraptera of meso-thorax.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Cardo extus umbonibus minutis, intus singulse valvule constans lamina rotundata, introrsum versa, concava; in al - tera testa juxta hunc cardinem est squamula erecta, complicata, cui in opposita testa respondet squama erecta, plana.
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