Definition of Mygales

1. Noun. (plural of mygale) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mygales

1. mygale [n] - See also: mygale

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mygales

myelopathy
myeloperoxidase
myeloperoxidases
myeloplax
myeloplaxes
myelopoiesis
myelopoietic
myeloproliferative
myelosuppression
myelosuppressive
myenteric
myenteric plexus
myenteron
myg
mygale
mygales (current term)
myiases
myiasis
mylar
mylars
myletis
mylodon
mylodons
mylodont
mylodontid
mylodonts
mylohyoid
mylonite
mylonites
mylonitic

Literary usage of Mygales

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1888)
"Judged by the organism as a whole, y appear to be related to the mygales, ... Like the larger mygales, the trap-door spiders have stout bodies, large legs, ..."

2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1833)
"11, 12), is an inch long, blackish, and proper to New Holland, from which it has been brought by Peron and Lesueur. Our second and last division of mygales, ..."

3. Harper's Book for Young Naturalists: A Guide to Collecting and Preparing by Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1913)
"I have been bitten several times by the giant mygales and never found the wound half as bad as the sting of a common yellow-jacket. ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1865)
"The mygales aro quite common insects; some species make their cells under ... Some mygales are of immense size. One day I saw the children belonging to an ..."

5. Oregon and Eldorado by Thomas Bulfinch (1866)
"The mygales are quite common insects. Some species make their cells under ... Some mygales are of immense size. One day, I saw the children belonging to an ..."

6. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1890)
"One of Mr. McCook's mygales lost several limbs while moulting. ... The digging of these mygales was done with the fore legs and palpi. ..."

7. Annual Report by Entomological Society of Ontario, Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture (1899)
"Among remarkable spiders the mygales or Bird-spiders hold the forty kinds of ... Some of the mygales are known as " Trap-door Spiders " They form tunnels in ..."

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