galea
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galeae
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Botany. a part of the calyx or corolla having the form of a helmet, as the upper lip of the corolla of the monkshood.
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Anatomy. any of several helmet-shaped structures.
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Origin of galea
1700–10; < Latin: helmet
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Terebra: a borer or piercer: an ovipositor fitted for boring or cutting as in saw-flies: a mandibular sclerite articulated to the basalis; forms the point of the structure and = the galea of the maxilla.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
The maxillæ; end in a tridentate lacinia as usual, though the palpi and galea I have not yet studied.
From Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard
Valve or Valvulae: the expanded plate-like galea of the maxilla in many Hymenoptera.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
Mala maxillae: the globes of maxilla; outer or galea, inner or lacinia; where only one is present, the term refers to that one.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
The galea, or middle division, forms a simple lobe, while the lacinia has two large chitinous teeth on the inner edge, and internally four or five hairs arising from a thin edge.
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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