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.
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Etymology
Origin of galea
1700–10; < Latin: helmet
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Subgalea: a maxillary sclerite or segment, attached to the stipes, and bearing the galea or outer lobe.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
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 Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
It is the Dolium galea, good friends, and we could tell you six other kinds that are suspected of this meanness.
From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 34, November 19, 1870 by Various
Unâ tantum manu, & non ambabus, securi percutiunt, pollice desuper manubrium in longum extenso ictu regente, a quo nec galea, caput, in conum erecta, nec reliquum corpus ferrea loricæ tricatura tuetur.
From The Norwegian account of Haco's expedition against Scotland, A.D. MCCLXIII. by Johnstone, James Johnstone, chevalier de
Tunc visus est ipse ferreus Carolus ferrea galea cristatus, ferreis manicis armillatus, etc., etc.
From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
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