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Definition of Galea

1. Noun. An organ shaped like a helmet; usually a vaulted and enlarged petal as in Aconitum.

Definition of Galea

1. n. The upper lip or helmet-shaped part of a labiate flower.

Definition of Galea

1. Noun. a Roman helmet ¹

2. Noun. (botany) an organ or a part of a plant that is shaped like a galea (helmet) ¹

3. Noun. (entomology) a mouthpart found in some species of chewing insect, which is shaped like a galea (helmet) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Galea

1. a helmet-shaped anatomical part [n -LEAE or -LEAS] : GALEATE, GALEATED [adj]

Medical Definition of Galea

1. 1. The upper lip or helmet-shaped part of a labiate flower. 2. A kind of bandage for the head. 3. Headache extending all over the head. 4. A genus of fossil echini, having a vaulted, helmet-shaped shell. 5. The anterior, outer process of the second joint of the maxillae in certain insects. Origin: L, a helmet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Galea

Literary usage of Galea

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

1. Bulletins of American Paleontology by Cornell University, Paleontological Research Institution (1895)
"Tonna galea (Linnaeus), Perry and Schwengel, Marine Shells of the Western ... Dolium galea antillarum Morch, Coomans, Caraibisch Marien-Biological Inst., ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"It ends in the galea ... From these attachments the fibres are directed upward, and join the galea ..."

3. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"galea produced into a distinct beak. Beak long, strongly incurved; lip verj broad, meeting or enclosing the tip of the beak. ..."

4. Il Nuovo cimento by Società italiana di fisica (1866)
"Era già noto che il Dolium galea emetteva dalla bocca un liquido che in contatto de'carbonati era capace di produrre un'energica effervescenza, e nel 1857, ..."

5. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... rather hirsute: corolla smaller, not over half inch long, flesh-colored ; the closed galea not excised or notched anteriorly : filaments all glabrous. ..."

6. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"... bracts of the raceme often much longer than the flowers ; sepals and petals all connivent, forming a galea above the column ..."

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