vitta
Americannoun
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Botany. a tube or receptacle for oil, occurring in the fruits of most plants of the parsley family.
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Zoology, Botany. a streak or stripe, as of color.
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any of numerous tubelike cavities containing oil or resin that occur in the fruits of certain plants, esp of parsley and other umbellifers
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biology a band or stripe of colour
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Etymology
Origin of vitta
1685–95; < Latin: ribbon, fillet, akin to viēre to weave together
Example Sentences
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Over head and shoulders the full skirts of a vitta fell, erasing outline, and, contrasting the stature with that of the attending servant, he concluded that the small traveler was a child.
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth
Nigra, subtilissime punctata, antennis piceis, thorace vitta cinerea, tarsis posterioribus albis, alis nigricantibus.
From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various
Nigro-viridis; capite piceo apud oculos albido; antennis rufescentibus; thorace vitta abdomineque fasciis cinereis; pedibus nigris; alis limpidis, vittis tribus nigris, prima postice abbreviata, secunda tertiaque latis; halteribus albidis.
From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various
Before Amaryllis could gather resolution to protest, she was out again, clothed in mantle and vitta and, walking swiftly, disappeared into the vestibule.
From The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem by Leyendecker, Frank X.
Cyaneo-viridis, capite lætissime aurato frontalibus atris, antennis pedibusque nigris, thorace vittis quatuor cupreis, pectore maculis quatuor albis, abdomine viridi-cyaneo, vitta tenui purpurea, alis cinereis apud costam nigris, alulis albis.
From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various
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