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Water Mite :: Water mite () Any of numerous species of aquatic mites belonging to Hydrachna and allied genera of the family Hydrachnidae, usually having the legs fringed and adapted for swimming. They are often red or red and black in color, and while young are parasites of fresh-water insects and mussels. Called also water tick, and water spider..

Antisabbatarian :: Antisabbatarian (n.) One of a sect which opposes the observance of the Christian Sabbath.

Terebra :: Terebra (n.) The boring ovipositor of a hymenopterous insect.

Fly-case :: Fly-case (n.) The covering of an insect, esp. the elytra of beetles..

Pubescent :: Pubescent (a.) Covered with pubescence, or fine short hairs, as certain insects, and the leaves of some plants..

Peritreme :: Peritreme (n.) That part of the integument of an insect which surrounds the spiracles.

Homomorphism :: Homomorphism (n.) The possession of but one kind of larvae or young, as in most insects..

Heresiarch :: Heresiarch (n.) A leader in heresy; the chief of a sect of heretics.

Mentum :: Mentum (n.) The front median plate of the labium in insects. See Labium.

Breeze Fly :: Breeze fly (n.) A fly of various species, of the family Tabanidae, noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; -- called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest of two-winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies..

Albigeois :: Albigeois (n. pl.) A sect of reformers opposed to the church of Rome in the 12th centuries.

Shrike :: Shrike (v. i.) Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher..

Methodism :: Methodism (n.) The system of doctrines, polity, and worship, of the sect called Methodists..

Gall :: Gall (n.) An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut..

Euplexoptera :: Euplexoptera (n. pl.) An order of insects, including the earwig. The anterior wings are short, in the form of elytra, while the posterior wings fold up beneath them. See Earwig..

Cant :: Cant (n.) The idioms and peculiarities of speech in any sect, class, or occupation..

Ulonata :: Ulonata (n. pl.) A division of insects nearly equivalent to the true Orthoptera.

Stoic :: Stoic (n.) A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed..

Autopsy :: Autopsy (a.) Dissection of a dead body, for the purpose of ascertaining the cause, seat, or nature of a disease; a post-mortem examination..

Schwenkfeldian :: Schwenkfeldian (n.) A member of a religious sect founded by Kaspar von Schwenkfeld, a Silesian reformer who disagreed with Luther, especially on the deification of the body of Christ..

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