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
Example Sentences
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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
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
Paraglossa: a paired, labial structure, lying at each side of the ligula; often connected with it; sometimes free and two-jointed: corresponds to the galea of maxilla.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
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.
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.
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