neuration
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of neuration
Example Sentences
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Two pairs of similar, membranous wings, with predominantly longitudinal neuration.
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Two pairs of membranous, hair-covered wings, with predominantly longitudinal neuration.
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Wings with predominantly longitudinal neuration, covered with flattened scales.
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The wings, also, in the two sexes often differ in neuration,436 and sometimes considerably in outline, as in the Aricoris epitus, which was shown to me in the British Museum by Mr. A. Butler.
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There are some very interesting genera in which the neuration of some of the cells is so slightly indicated that they are hardly visible, and can be seen only when the wing is held in certain lights; these faintly indicated cells are nearly always those towards the apex of the wing, the neuration of the basal part of the wing being as strong as in the other genera.
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