eruciform
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of eruciform
Example Sentences
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The caddis-larva is as a rule of the eruciform type, but with well-developed thoracic legs, and with hook-like tail-appendages; by means of the latter it anchors itself to the extremity of its curious 'house.'
From The Life-Story of Insects by George H. (George Herbert) Carpenter
In all the remaining orders of the Endopterygota the larva is eruciform or vermiform.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
Most significant is the precedence of the eruciform by the campodeiform type.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
Such larvae as these latter are examples of the type called eruciform by A. S.
From The Life-Story of Insects by George H. (George Herbert) Carpenter
For reasons which we will not pause here to discuss, we have always regarded the eruciform type of larva as the highest.
From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard
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