nervule

American  

[nur-vyool] / ˈnɜr vyul /

noun

Zoology.

1. a small branch of a nerve in the wing of an insect.

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Etymology

Origin of nervule

First recorded in 1885–90; nerve + -ule

Example Sentences

Mr. Edward Doubleday, in his “Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera,” says, “The Papilionidæ may be known by the apparently four-branched median nervule and the spur on the anterior tibiæ, characters found in no other family.”

From Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays by Wallace, Alfred Russel

Posterior wings broad, semi-ovate, costal nervure long, sub-costal terminating in only two nervules, discoidal nervule nearly atrophied; discocellular the same, united with the third median nervule; cell rather large.

From Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. by Stokes, John Lort

"Note the anal angle of the secondaries and the argentiferous discal area bordering the subcostal nervule."

From Police!!! by Hutt, Henry