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Definition of Corydalus

1. Noun. Type genus of the Corydalidae.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Corydalus

Literary usage of Corydalus

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

1. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1879)
"... and on its adaptability to varying amounts of food-supply. ON THE LARVAL CHARACTERISTICS OF corydalus AND ... AND ON TUB DEVELOPMENT OF corydalus ..."

2. Up and Down the Brooks by Mary Ellen Bamford (1889)
"Never mind how corydalus spells his name. He is an evil beast. I well remember the day when my first and only larva of corydalus was found in the further ..."

3. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1890)
"... presented to the Faculty of the Cornell university for the Baccalaureate in science.] The nervous system of the head of the larva of corydalus ..."

4. Memoirs by American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Southern California Academy of Sciences, New York Academy of Sciences (1849)
"The transformations of corydalus cornutus, Linn, seem not to have been hitherto made known; although, from its size and the singularity of its appearance, ..."

5. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1877)
"... is :i»!i corydalus cornutus. It is not uncommon in the Eastern and Middle States, and is known in the Mississippi Valley by the vulgar name of the ..."

6. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1888)
"44 gives a general view of the nervous system of corydalus cornutus as ... In corydalus (Fig. 44) the eighth and ninth pairs of abdominal ganglia are united ..."

7. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1879)
"The corydalus larva is traced through its stages of growth and then ... The double nature of the thoracic tracheae in corydalus appears in the first larval ..."

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