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Definition of Obtected
1. a. Covered; protected.
Definition of Obtected
1. obtect [adj] - See also: obtect
Medical Definition of Obtected
1.
1. Covered; protected.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Obtected
Literary usage of Obtected
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate Animals by Richard Owen (1855)
"... be subject to the semi-complete and incomplete metamorphosis pass through the
same kind and amount of change as those characterised by the obtected or ..."
2. The Entomologist's Text Book: An Introduction to the Natural History by John Obadiah Westwood (1838)
"... and more completely inclosing the limbs in one general covering. To this kind
of metamorphosis, which Latreille considers as comprising the obtected and ..."
3. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"Pupae which like the pupae of Lepidoptera, have the limbs glued to the surface
of the body, are termed obtected pupae. ..."
4. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1899)
"The obtected pupa is exhibited in various stages of perfection in the Lepidoptera;
... Moreover, certain Coleoptera and Diptera exhibit obtected ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... is according to whether the pupa is free (sometimes active, but not taking
nutriment) or enclosed within the hardened ekin of the larva ("obtected" or ..."
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