Word Meanings - METATHORAX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The last or posterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.

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• THORAX
  The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal vertebræ, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest. Note: In
• ILLUSTROUS
  Without luster.
• COLEOPTERAN
  One of the order of Coleoptera.
• ILLUSTRIOUS
  1. Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl. 2. Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened
• SEGMENT
  A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration. A piece in the
• ILLUSTRATIVELY
  By way of illustration or elucidation. Sir T. Browne.
• ILLUSTRATIVE
  1. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate. 2. Making illustrious.
• SEGMENTATION
  The act or process of dividing into segments; specifically , a self-division into segments as a result of growth; cell cleavage; cell multiplication; endogenous cell formation. Segmentation cavity , the cavity formed by the arrangement of the cells
• POSTERIORLY
  Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.
• ILLUSTRIOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame.
• ILLUSTRATION
  1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct. 2. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible,
• ILLUSTRIOUSLY
  In a illustrious manner; conspicuously; eminently; famously. Milton.
• POSTERIORITY
  The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority.
• SEGMENTAL
  1. Relating to, or being, a segment. Of or pertaining to the segments of animals; as, a segmental duct; segmental papillæ. Of or pertaining to the segmental organs. Segmental duct , the primitive duct of the embryonic excretory organs which gives
• COLEOPTERA
  An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles
• ILLUSTRATE
  1. To make clear, bright, or luminous. Here, when the moon illustrates all the sky. Chapman. 2. To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously. Shak. To prove him, and illustrate his high worth. Milton. 3. To make clear,
• POSTERIORS
  The hinder parts, as of an animal's body. Swift.
• ILLUSTRATOR
  One who illustrates.
• SEGMENTED
  Divided into segments or joints; articulated.
• ILLUSTRABLE
  Capable of illustration. Sir T. Browne.
• PROTHORAX
  The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera.
• CEPHALOTHORAX
  The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax.
• HAEMATOTHORAX
  See HEMOTHORAX
• BISEGMENT
  One of tow equal parts of a line, or other magnitude.
• PYOPNEUMOTHORAX
  Accumulation of air, or other gas, and of pus, in the pleural cavity.
• PNEUMATOTHORAX
  See PNEUMOTHORAX
• HYDROTHORAX
  An accumulation of serous fluid in the cavity of the chest.
• MESOTHORAX
  The middle segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.