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Definition of Limulus
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Limulidae.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Limulidae, Limulidae
Member holonyms: Horseshoe Crab, King Crab, Limulus Polyphemus, Xiphosurus Polyphemus
Definition of Limulus
1. n. The only existing genus of Merostomata. It includes only a few species from the East Indies, and one (Limulus polyphemus) from the Atlantic coast of North America. Called also Molucca crab, king crab, horseshoe crab, and horsefoot.
Definition of Limulus
1. a horseshoe crab [n -LI]
Medical Definition of Limulus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Limulus
Literary usage of Limulus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Differences between limulus and Scorpio.—We have now passed in review the principal
structural features in which limulus agrees with Scorpio and differs ..."
2. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"Each simple eye, he further informs us, receives its distinct nerve from the
anterior apex of the corresponding cerebral lobe. of the anatomy of the limulus ..."
3. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1881)
"B. COMPARISON or limulus AND SCORPIO. § a. Nervous system. § b. ... In the
following pages I hope to show that limulus is best understood as an aquatic ..."
4. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1892)
"THE embryology of limulus has already given rise to considerable literature, but
there still remain many problems to be solved. The first to describe any ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1903)
"Now the larva of limulus is hatched with two body-regions, of the same general
shape as those of the trilobites, and it is also trilobed; the embryo, ..."
6. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"GULLAND, GL Evidence in favour of the View that the Coxal Gland of limulus and
of other Arachnida is a Modified Nephridium. Quart. Journ. Micro. Sci. (2). ..."
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