Lexicographical Neighbors of Pulvilli
Literary usage of Pulvilli
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1891)
"The smallest individuals have the front and face only one. third the width of
the head, and, were it not for their short claws and pulvilli, ..."
2. An Introduction to Entomology: Or, Elements of the Natural History of by William Kirby, William Spence (1846)
"Yet, from the absolute necessity which the flies on which I experimented appeared
to feel of cleaning their pulvilli immediately after being wetted or ..."
3. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"On the ventral surface of the segments of the tarsus in many insects are cushion-like
structures; these are called pulvilli. ..."
4. Evenings at the microscope, or, Researches among the minuter organs and by Philip Henry Gosse (1868)
"Here, too, it should be noticed, in proof of the importance of all the pulvilli
being kept clean, that as the tarsi of the two middle legs cannot be applied ..."
5. Evenings at the Microscope: Or, Researches Among the Minuter Organs and by Philip Henry Gosse (1883)
"Here, too, it should be noticed, in proof of the importance of all the pulvilli
being kept clean, that as the tarsi of the two middle legs cannot be applied ..."
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