Definition of Statocysts

1. Noun. (plural of statocyst) ¹

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Definition of Statocysts

1. statocyst [n] - See also: statocyst

Lexicographical Neighbors of Statocysts

statistician
statisticians
statisticization
statisticks
statistics
statistology
statists
stative
statives
statoblast
statoblasts
statocracies
statocracy
statocratic
statocyst
statocysts (current term)
statoid
statoids
statolith
statoliths
stator
stator coil
stators
statoscope
statoscopes
stats
statto
stattos
statua
statuaries

Literary usage of Statocysts

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

1. Natural History of the American Lobster by Francis Hobart Herrick (1911)
"BALANCING ORGANS OR statocysts. It is commonly observed that while a living fish swims with its body erect and poised, a dead one floats on its side, ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1901)
"The statocysts of Cephalopoda. By R. HA.KLYX-HARRIS, FR MS, FZS Thanks to the kindness of the Committee of the British Association for the Advancement of ..."

3. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost (1907)
"NOLL (1900) imagined that a sensitive apparatus was formed in the ectoplasm, analogous to the statocysts which occur in crayfish, ..."

4. The Animal Mind: A Text-book of Comparative Psychology by Margaret Floy Washburn (1917)
"Delage in found that Mysis, Palaemon, and other forms displayed serious disturbance of equilibrium when both eyes and statocysts were destroyed, ..."

5. Morphology of Invertebrate Types by Alexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch (1916)
"statocysts. Tima formosa has one hundred twenty-eight simple statocysts along its ... The statocysts are more or less round bodies of very small size. ..."

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