galea
Americannoun
plural
galeae-
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.
noun
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Etymology
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 Smith, John. B.
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 Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
Valve or Valvulae: the expanded plate-like galea of the maxilla in many Hymenoptera.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
Corolla.—Tubular; the upper lip, or galea, little or not at all longer than the lower; small in comparison with the large, inflated, one- to three-saccate lower one, which usually bears more or less conspicuous teeth.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
Paucis loricæ; vix uni alterive cassis aut galea.
From Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Döderlein, Ludwig
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