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Remote, further removed than distant. 

 Reniform, kidney-shaped. 



Repand, wavy; with alternate segments of circles and inter- 

 vening angles. See scolloped.' 

 Replicatile, capable of being folded back. 

 Resilient, having the property of springing back. 

 Resupinate, upside down ; horizontally reversed. 

 Reticulate, like net-work. 



Retinaculum, horny moveable scales in the Hymenoptera, serv- 

 ing instead of muscles to move the spicula, or to prevent it 

 from being darted out too far. 

 Retracted, opposed to prominent ; drawn back. 

 Retractile, generally exserted, but capable of being drawn in. 

 Retrorse, (sinuate) pointing backwards ; (serrate) inversely ser- 

 rated. 



Retuse, ending in an obtuse sinus, or broad shallow notch ; ter- 

 minated by an obtuse hollow. 

 Reversed, (wings) deflexed, the margin of the posterior wings 



projecting beyond that of the anterior wings. 

 Reviviscence, the awakening from torpidity ; the restoration from 



suspended animation. 



Revotute, rolled backwards spirally. See convolute. 

 Rhombus, a quadrangular figure, having its four sides equal and 

 its opposite lines parallel, with two opposite angles acute and 

 two obtuse. 



Rhomboid, a figure approaching to a rhombus. 

 Rigid, inflexible, not easily bending; opposed to limber. 

 Rimose, full of cracks. 

 Ringent, gaping. 



Roseus, colour of a rose, a pale blood red. 

 Roslellum, a little bill or beak ; it is horny and articulated as in 

 Cimex, &c. ; it is the " rostrum" of Latreille. See rostrum. 

 Rostrum, an immoveable prolongation of the head, at the end of 

 which is the mouth, as in the Curculio kind. Latreille applies 

 this term to the rostellum of the Cimices. 

 Rotate, wheel-shaped. 



Rudiment, the incomplete formation of a part or organ. 

 Rufous, reddish. 

 Rugous, wrinkled ; with irregularly waved and elevated lines. 



See corrugated. 



Rnndnate, notched ; cut into several transverse acute segments 

 which point backwards. 



