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Acuminated, tapering to a point ; a point lengtliened out. 



Acute, sharp pointed. 



Adnate, connected; adhering or growing together; adjoining; 

 (abdomen) attached to the thorax without the intervention of 

 a petiole. 



Aclpressed, contiguous ; pressed to, or laid to. 



JEquata, equal. 



vEroscepsin, a supposed unknown sense, of which the antennae 

 are, by some, beheved to be the organs. 



JErugiiious, the color of verdegris ; light bluish-green. 



Alx, wings. 



Alated, winged ; furnished with wings, or with projecting bodies 

 somewhat like wings. 



Albidus, a dusky white. 



Albus, white. 



Alternate, so placed that between two on one side, there is but 

 one on the opposite side ; or a series of spots on the chequer- 

 board would be said to be alternately black, or alternately 

 white. See opposite. 



Alveolate, furnished with cells. 



Alveole, a cell like that of a honeycomb. 



Amhidatory, formed for walking. See saltatory, cursory. 



Anal angle, the inner posterior angle of the inferior wings of the 

 Lepidoptera. 



Anastomosing, inosculating, or running into eaqh other like 

 veins. 



Anastomosis, a spot in the upper wing, at the branching of the 

 nervures, near the costal edge ; the stigma ; in general this 

 word is used to indicate the connection of any two nervures of 

 wing, by means of a transverse nervure. 



Anceps, two-edged, very similar to ensiform. 



Ancipital, having two opposite edges or angles. 



Amndata, or annulosa, one of the four great types into which 

 Cuvier divides the animal kingdom ; it consists of those ani- 

 mals whose bodies are more or less divided transversely into 

 segments. It includes the classes Crustacea, Myriapoda, Arach- 

 nides, Insecta, and Vermes. 



Annulate, or annidafcd, furnished with colored rings; marked 

 with differently colored annulations. 



