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Definition of Chaetae
1. chaeta [n] - See also: chaeta
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chaetae
Literary usage of Chaetae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1896)
"Each segment is normally provided on each side with a single or a couple of
bundles of chaetae, by means of which locomotion is effected. ..."
2. Zoology: An Elementary Text-book by Arthur Everett Shipley, Ernest William MacBride (1904)
"Each segment bears eight of these chaetae arranged in four pairs, one pair on
each side being ... It is by means of the chaetae that the worm crawls about; ..."
3. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1915)
"Thorax rich deep brown with bright bronzy narrow-curved scales, some showing dull
golden reflections especially over the roots of the wings; chaetae black; ..."
4. The Ascent of Mount S' Elias...Alaska by Filippo de Filippi, Vittorio Sella (1900)
"The chaetae are slightly sigmoid, more markedly bent at their apical end (Fig.
10). ... Each bundle consists of four nearly equal chaetae. ..."
5. A Monograph of the Culicidae, Or Mosquitoes: Mainly Compiled from the by Fred. V. Theobald (1907)
"... apex of basal lobe with a few chaetae only; claspers long, with a lamellate
side area near the acute apex (other structures shown in figure). Length. ..."
6. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals: A by Gilbert Charles Bourne, Arthur Bolles Lee (1902)
"There is also a pair of modified chaetae in somite 15. In addition to the mouth
and anus, the following external apertures must be noted:—(i) The dorsal ..."
7. The Animal Parasites of Man: A Handbook for Students and Medical Men by Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun, Pauline Falcke, Louis Westenra Sambon, Frederick Vincent Theobald (1908)
"SECTION^B.—Metanotum ornamented with chaetae, ... a With chaetae only. Proboscis
longer than whole body ; lateral IS.,wing scales ..."
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