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Definition of Ctenidia
1. ctenidium [n] - See also: ctenidium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ctenidia
Literary usage of Ctenidia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... the lower siphonal notch (fin fig. l) Probably a straining of water from solid
particles is effected by the lattice-work oí the ctenidia or gill-plates. ..."
2. The Journal of Malacology by Walter Edward Collinge (1893)
"The ctenidia then became serially repeated down each side of the body (cf.
Chiton, where the multiplication of ctenidia is also correlated with the ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Spengel (24) has, however, in a most ingenious way shown that these bodies are
the representatives of the typical pair of ctenidia, here reduced to a mere ..."
4. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"Certain primitive snails, which possess a pair of ctenidia, have also two auricles,
... Those snails which have two ctenidia have also a pair of kidneys. ..."
5. Handbook of Medical Entomology by William Albert Riley, Oskar Augustus Johannsen (1915)
"With ctenidia in front of the antennae and on the genae (cheeks); ... Abdominal
segments without ctenidia. d. Post-tibial spines in pairs and not in a very ..."
6. Medical and Veterinary Entomology: A Textbook for Use in Schools and by William Brodbeck Herms (1915)
"Head without ctenidia; eyes distinct 2 Head and pronotum with ... Pronotum without
ctenidia 4 Pronotum with ..."
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