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Definition of Mygales
1. mygale [n] - See also: mygale
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mygales
Literary usage of Mygales
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1888)
"Judged by the organism as a whole, y appear to be related to the mygales, ...
Like the larger mygales, the trap-door spiders have stout bodies, large legs, ..."
2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1833)
"11, 12), is an inch long, blackish, and proper to New Holland, from which it has
been brought by Peron and Lesueur. Our second and last division of mygales, ..."
3. Harper's Book for Young Naturalists: A Guide to Collecting and Preparing by Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (1913)
"I have been bitten several times by the giant mygales and never found the wound
half as bad as the sting of a common yellow-jacket. ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1865)
"The mygales aro quite common insects; some species make their cells under ...
Some mygales are of immense size. One day I saw the children belonging to an ..."
5. Oregon and Eldorado by Thomas Bulfinch (1866)
"The mygales are quite common insects. Some species make their cells under ...
Some mygales are of immense size. One day, I saw the children belonging to an ..."
6. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1890)
"One of Mr. McCook's mygales lost several limbs while moulting. ... The digging
of these mygales was done with the fore legs and palpi. ..."
7. Annual Report by Entomological Society of Ontario, Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture (1899)
"Among remarkable spiders the mygales or Bird-spiders hold the forty kinds of ...
Some of the mygales are known as " Trap-door Spiders " They form tunnels in ..."
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