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Definition of Antennary

1. Adjective. Of or relating to antennae. "Antennal senses of insects"

Definition of Antennary

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to antennae or feelers ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Antennary

Literary usage of Antennary

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

1. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1866)
"Ih this way he arrives at eight tribes, as shown in the following table :— I. antennary pores diffused. A. antennary pores concealed by a pubescence. 1. ..."

2. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1879)
"antennary lobes.—These are large in the cockroach, and in sections present very much the same structure as Dietl has described in the bee. ..."

3. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1899)
"Fixed ramus of the antennary chela. Fig. 2. A smaller specimen of the same. Figs. 4, 5. ... A fragment of a large antennary joint ? UL Ludlow. toa. ..."

4. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1871)
"The clypeus and labrum are apparently differentiated from the cephalic lobes, and thus seem to form a portion, or fold, of the antennary segment. ..."

5. A Treatise on Comparative Embryology by Francis Maitland Balfour (1885)
"In addition to the antennary gland there is present, near the dorsal side ... 1 There is considerable confusion about the shell gland and antennary gland. ..."

6. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1896)
"Head narrower in front ; supra-antennary ridge less distinct ; the punctuation of the head and thorax finer; scutellum nearly twice as broad as long, ..."

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