cultellus

American  

[kuhl-tel-uhs] / kʌlˈtɛl əs /

noun

Zoology.

• cultelli
  plural

1. a sharp, knifelike structure, as the mouthparts of certain bloodsucking flies.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• cultelli
  plural

Etymology

Origin of cultellus

1895–1900; < Latin: diminutive of culter knife, colter; for formation, see castellum

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cultellus cultelli

The word is derived from the Fr. coutelas, or coutelace, a form of coutel, modern couteau, a knife, from Lat. cultellus, diminutive of culter, a ploughshare, or cutting instrument.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

T. b. pervagus occupies an area geographically intermediate between T. b. aureus to the west and T. b. internatus and T. b. cultellus to the east and has some characters in common with these subspecies.

From Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher, Thomys bottae, in Colorado by Phillip M. Youngman

For comparisons with T. b. internatus, T. b. cultellus, and T. b. rubidus, see accounts of those subspecies.

From Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher, Thomys bottae, in Colorado by Phillip M. Youngman

T. b. internatus, T. b. cultellus, T. b. pervagus, and the newly named T. b. rubidus occupy part of the Southern Rocky Mountain Region and a narrow strip of the Great Plains.

From Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher, Thomys bottae, in Colorado by Phillip M. Youngman

T. b. pervagus resembles T. b. internatus and T. b. cultellus in color, the presence of a V-shaped interpterygoid space, and a narrow basioccipital.

From Geographic Variation in the Pocket Gopher, Thomys bottae, in Colorado by Phillip M. Youngman

Item si in clara flamma ignis vel candeliæ cereæ miseris punctum cultelli cum gutta puri Balsami, ipsa gutta de facilè comburetur.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt