Lexicographical Neighbors of Clitella
Literary usage of Clitella
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1888)
"These are filled when copulation takes place, during which process the two worms
are said to be bound together by a tough secretion of their clitella. ..."
2. Roman Antiquities: Or, An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Romans by Alexander Adam (1826)
"94. but not oxen ; hence clitella BOVI SUNT IM POSITS, when a task is imposed on
one, which he is unfit for, ..."
3. History of Prose Fiction by John Colin Dunlop, Henry Wilson (1888)
"... who sold his wine half mixed with water, miraculously loses the half of his
gains. 6th of 8th. Is merely an expansion of the clitella, ..."
4. History of Prose Fiction by John Colin Dunlop (1906)
"... who sold his wine half mixed with water, miraculously loses the half of his
gains. 6th of 8th. Is merely an expansion of the clitella, ..."
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