Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In entomology: A sclerite attached to the lateral border of the mesoscutum and covering the base of the fore wing, as in hymenopterous insects. (See
pterygoda and operculum .) A similar formation of lepidopterous insects is known as the patagium, scapula, or shoulder-tippet. - noun A little membrane covering the metathoracic spiracle of dipterous insects: also called squama, prchalter, and covering-scale.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A small appendage situated above the base of the wings of Hymenoptera and attached to the mesonotum.
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- noun entomology A small
sclerite situated above the base of thecostal vein in thewings of variousinsects , and attached to theanterolateral portion of themesonotum .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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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Stella has given him some tiles to roof his house; he would like a cloak as well: cum pluvias madidumque Iovem perferre negaret et rudis hibernis villa nataret aquis, plurima, quae posset subitos effundere nimbos, muneribus venit tegula missa tuis. horridus ecce sonat Boreae stridore December:
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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SI quis forte mei domum Catonis, depictas minio assulas, et illos custodis uidet hortulos Priapi, miratur quibus ille disciplinis tantam sit sapientiam assecutus, 5 quem tres cauliculi, selibra farris, racemi duo tegula sub una ad summam prope nutriant senectam.
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HelikewileTilitcdthcholpital, and o conuilt on the fnllowing propoji - exprefled great Eiliifaflion at the tegula - tioni, \vbich are a part of the intended al - rity and order eftablUhed there. terationi and pnapoGtions.
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laesit et obiectum tegula curta caput. denique quis nostro curuum te funere uidit.
Cynthia Dead 1912
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