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Manitrunk :: Manitrunk (n.) The anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Insect.

Branchiomerism :: Branchiomerism (n.) The state of being made up of branchiate segments.

Chromophane :: Chromophane (n.) A general name for the several coloring matters, red, green, yellow, etc., present in the inner segments in the cones of the retina, held in solution by fats, and slowly decolorized by light; distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods of the retina..

Inarticulate :: Inarticulate (a.) Not jointed or articulated; having no distinct body segments; as, an inarticulate worm..

Setigerous :: Setigerous (a.) Covered with bristles; having or bearing a seta or setae; setiferous; as, setigerous glands; a setigerous segment of an annelid; specifically (Bot.), tipped with a bristle..

Catadromous :: Catadromous (a.) Having the lowest inferior segment of a pinna nearer the rachis than the lowest superior one; -- said of a mode of branching in ferns, and opposed to anadromous..

Spindling :: Spindleworm (n.) The larva of a noctuid mmoth (Achatodes zeae) which feeds inside the stalks of corn (maize), sometimes causing much damage. It is smooth, with a black head and tail and a row of black dots across each segment..

Blastocoele :: Blastocoele (n.) The cavity of the blastosphere, or segmentation cavity..

Cant :: Cant (n.) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.

Scallop :: Scallop (n.) One of series of segments of circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell..

Sutured :: Suture (n.) A seam, or impressed line, as between the segments of a crustacean, or between the whorls of a univalve shell..

Stylohyoid :: Stylohyal (n.) A segment in the hyoidean arch between the epihyal and tympanohyal.

Pronucleus :: Pronucleus (n.) One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum.

Welwitschia :: Welwitschia (n.) An African plant (Welwitschia mirabilis) belonging to the order Gnetaceae. It consists of a short, woody, topshaped stem, and never more than two leaves, which are the cotyledons enormously developed, and at length split into diverging segments..

Segment :: Segment (n.) One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation..

Prothorax :: Prothorax (n.) The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera.

Paries :: Paries (n.) The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.

Epipharyngeal :: Epipharyngeal (a.) Pertaining to the segments above the epibranchial in the branchial arches of fishes.

Branchiate :: Branchiate (a.) Furnished with branchiae; as, branchiate segments..

Segment :: Segment (n.) A segment gear.

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