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Spiracle :: Spiracle (n.) One of the external openings communicating with the air tubes or tracheae of insects, myriapods, and arachnids. They are variable in number, and are usually situated on the sides of the thorax and abdomen, a pair to a segment. These openings are usually elliptical, and capable of being closed. See Illust. under Coleoptera..

Sweep :: Sweep (n.) The mold of a ship when she begins to curve in at the rungheads; any part of a ship shaped in a segment of a circle.

Loop :: Loop (n.) The portion of a vibrating string, air column, etc., between two nodes; -- called also ventral segment..

Propodium :: Propodium (n.) The segment which forms the posterior part of the thorax of a hymenopterous insect.

Metamere :: Metamere (n.) One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of Loeven's larva..

Chaetopoda :: Chaetopoda (n. pl.) A very extensive order of Annelida, characterized by the presence of lateral setae, or spines, on most or all of the segments. They are divided into two principal groups: Oligochaeta, including the earthworms and allied forms, and Polychaeta, including most of the marine species..

Thalamencephalon :: Thalamencephalon (n.) The segment of the brain next in front of the midbrain, including the thalami, pineal gland, and pituitary body; the diencephalon; the interbrain..

Rhodophane :: Rhodophane (n.) The red pigment contained in the inner segments of the cones of the retina in animals. See Chromophane.

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..

Quinquefid :: Quinquefid (a.) Sharply cut about halfway to the middle or base into five segments; as, a quinquefid leaf or corolla..

Myriapoda :: Myriapoda (n. pl.) A class, or subclass, of arthropods, related to the hexapod insects, from which they differ in having the body made up of numerous similar segments, nearly all of which bear true jointed legs. They have one pair of antennae, three pairs of mouth organs, and numerous trachaae, similar to those of true insects. The larvae, when first hatched, often have but three pairs of legs. See Centiped, Galleyworm, Milliped..

#NAME? :: -ment () A suffix denoting that which does a thing; an act or process; the result of an act or process; state or condition; as, aliment, that which nourishes, ornament, increment; fragment, piece broken, segment; abridgment, act of abridging, imprisonment, movement, adjournment; amazement, state of being amazed, astonishment..

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

Segmentation :: Segmentation (n.) The act or process of dividing into segments; specifically (Biol.), a self-division into segments as a result of growth; cell cleavage; cell multiplication; endogenous cell formation..

Metasome :: Metasome (n.) One of the component segments of the body of an animal.

Prescutum :: Prescutum (n.) The first of the four pieces composing the dorsal part, or tergum, of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is usually small and inconspicuous..

Thigh :: Thigh (n.) The proximal segment of the hind limb between the knee and the trunk. See Femur.

Flanch :: Flanch (n.) A bearing consisting of a segment of a circle encroaching on the field from the side.

Actinomere :: Actinomere (n.) One of the radial segments composing the body of one of the Coelenterata.

Scallop :: Scallop (v. t.) To mark or cut the edge or border of into segments of circles, like the edge or surface of a scallop shell. See Scallop, n., 2..

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