furculum
Americannoun
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furcula
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Origin of furculum
From New Latin
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The extremities of the furculum, where articulated to the coracoids, vary considerably in outline.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin
This reduction of the crest in all the breeds probably accounts for the great variability, before referred to, in the curvature of the furculum, and in the shape of its sternal extremity.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin
The size and shape of the perforations in the sternum, and the size and divergence of the arms of the furculum, differ.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin
With our anciently domesticated birds, the wings have been little used, and they are slightly reduced; with their decrease, the crest of the sternum, the scapulae, coracoids, and furculum, have all been reduced.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin
We thus clearly see that the sternum, scapula, and furculum are all reduced in proportional length; but when we turn to the wings we find what at first appears a wholly different and unexpected result.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin
The furcula is flexible enough to bend and provide support to the shoulder girdle during flapping.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
“The clavicle part is real. In birds, the fused clavicles form the furcula, or wishbone. And nowadays—in 2014—we know that dinosaurs had wishbones, too.”
From Newsweek
Furca: a fork: the anal appendage used for leaping in Thysanura; see furcula: the forked ental processes of the sternum.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
The arms of the furcula in all the specimens which I compared, diverged less, proportionally with the size of body, than in the rock-pigeon; and the whole furculum was proportionally shorter.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin
Tenaculum: in Collembola, a small organ which holds the furcula in position when at rest: = catch.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
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