Word Meanings - PROSTERNUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The ventral plate of the prothorax of an insect.

Related words: (words related to PROSTERNUM)

• PLATEFUL
  Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold.
• INSECTATOR
  A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic. Bailey.
• PROTHORAX
  The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera.
• PLATEN
  The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made. Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression. The movable table of a machine tool,
• PLATE-GILLED
  Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks.
• PLATE
  A piece of money, usually silver money. "Realms and islands were as plates dropp'd from his pocket." Shak. 7. A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a
• INSECTION
  A cutting in; incisure; incision.
• PLATERESQUE
  Resembling silver plate; -- said of certain architectural ornaments.
• INSECTATION
  The act of pursuing; pursuit; harassment; persecution. Sir T. More.
• INSECTOLOGER
  An entomologist.
• INSECTIVORA
  1. An order of mammals which feed principally upon insects. Note: They are mostly of small size, and their molar teeth have sharp cusps. Most of the species burrow in the earth, and many of those of cold climates hibernate in winter. The order
• INSECTIVOROUS
  Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous. The term is applied: to
• INSECTILE
  Pertaining to, or having the nature of, insects. Bacon.
• INSECTARY
  A place for keeping living insects. -- In`sec*ta"ri*um, n. Etym:
• VENTRAL
  Of, pertaining to, or situated near, the belly, or ventral side, of an animal or of one of its parts; hemal; abdominal; as, the ventral fin of a fish; the ventral root of a spinal nerve; -- opposed to Ant: dorsal. Of or pertaining to that surface
• PLATER
  One who plates or coats articles with gold or silver; as, a silver plater. 2. A machine for calendering paper.
• INSECTED
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or resembling, an insect. Howell.
• INSECTOLOGY
  Entomology.
• INSECTIVORE
  One of the Insectivora.
• INSECTICIDE
  An agent or preparation for destroying insects; an insect powder. -- In*sec"ti*ci`dal, a.
• WET PLATE
  A plate the film of which retains its sensitiveness only while wet. The film used in such plates is of collodion impregnated with bromides and iodides. Before exposure the plate is immersed in a solution of silver nitrate, and immediately after
• DORSIVENTRAL
  Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral.
• CONTEMPLATE
  contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love,
• VEILED PLATE
  A fogged plate.
• FOOTPLATE
  See
• DORSOVENTRAL
  From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis.
• TERNEPLATE
  Thin iron sheets coated with an alloy of lead and tin; -- so called because made up of three metals.
• BREASTPLATE
  A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See
• BACKPIECE; BACKPLATE
  A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.
• IMPLATE
  To cover with plates; to sheathe; as, to implate a ship with iron.
• NECKPLATE
  See 2