clypeus
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clypei
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Origin of clypeus
1825–35; < New Latin, special use of Latin clypeus, clipeus round shield
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The material of which the clypeus was composed was wood covered with a bull's skin that had been so thoroughly tanned as to afford safety against the severest leathering.
From The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott ? Becket
The labrum and clypeus are developed as a single prolongation of the oral piece, not as a pair of appendages.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
Head and thorax black and very closely punctured; the face covered with griseous pubescence; the clypeus with a central longitudinal carina.
From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various
Black; the face with silvery pubescence; the clypeus with two large blunt teeth at its apex, formed by a deep notch in its anterior margin; the scape reddish-yellow in front.
From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various
Black; the scape in front, a line on the inner margin of the eyes, terminating in their emargination, an abbreviated line behind them, and the clypeus yellow; the latter deeply emarginate, forming two teeth.
From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various
To how many, even of those who find pleasure in archæological pursuits, does the charge apply: “—neque enim clypei cælamina norit.”
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
A little lower, "Opposui molem clypei, texique jacentem," is amplified by a similar witticism, "My broad buckler hid him from the foe, Even the shield trembled as he lay below."
From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by George Saintsbury
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