GLOSSARY 



Tentacles Feelers 



Terete Cylindrical and tapering 



Terminal At the end 



Tessellated Marked with- checks or squares 



Thoracic Pertaining to the throat 



Translucent Nearly transparent 



Transverse Crosswise 



Trenchant Compressed to a sharp edge 



Trifurcated Forked; divided into three branches 



Truncate Abrupt; cut off square 



Tubercle A small excrescence like a pimple, a papilla 



Typical Of a structure the most usual of a group 



Umbilicus The navel 



Umbone Nucleus of a shell 



Vent The external opening of the alimentary canal; anus 



Ventral Pertaining to the abdomen 



Ventral fins The paired fins behind the pectoral fins, in fishes 



Ventrical One of the walls of the heart 



Vermes Worms 



Vertebra One of the bones of the spinal column 



Vertical Up and down 



Verticil A small whorl 



Viscid Sticky 



Viscous Slimy 



Viviparous Bringing forth living young 



Web Membrane connecting the toes; also the fin rays in fishes 



Whorl Arrangement around a stem in plants; volution or turn of the spire of a snail 



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