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Definition of Pulvillus
1. n. One of the minute cushions on the feet of certain insects.
Definition of Pulvillus
1. a pad between the claws of an insect's foot [n -LI]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pulvillus
Literary usage of Pulvillus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Materials for the study of variation treated with especial regard to by William Bateson (1894)
"The tarsus is normal as far as the extremity of the terminal joint, and the
abnormality consists entirely in repetition of claws and pulvillus. ..."
2. Foundations of Biology by Lorande Loss Woodruff (1922)
"with a pair of notched CLAWS, a sticky pad (pulvillus) and TACTILE HAIRS. (Fig.
178.) When the Bee is walking up a rough surface, the points of the claws ..."
3. Transactions of the American Entomological Society by American Entomological Society (1905)
"9 , there is apparently a minute or rudimentary pulvillus. ... the pulvillus is
quite distinct. In the male of the Chilian /.. dubius there is a long ..."
4. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1902)
"In the male sex is a distinct pulvillus which is absent in the female. Tarsal claws
in male cleft ; in the female squarely toothed within basally. ..."
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