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Definition of Spiracles
1. spiracle [n] - See also: spiracle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spiracles
Literary usage of Spiracles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"The two pairs of thoracic spiracles are commonly distinguished as the mesothoracic
and the metathoracic spiracles; that is each pair of spiracles is ..."
2. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1890)
"By JC EWART, MD, Regius Professor of Natural History, University of Edinburgh.
IN 1875 Professor Turner, in a paper "On the Presence of spiracles in the ..."
3. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"spiracles, lateral body- pores. Jaws lateral. Penes mirantes. ... spiracles solitary.
Finned : breathing also by means of lateral gills. ..."
4. A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Microscope: Including the Different by John Quekett (1855)
"The method of preparing the tracheae and spiracles of insects has already been
described at pages 385-6 ; they may be examined in situ in many of the ..."
5. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1901)
"At this stage there are no vaginal openings, though the eggs can be clearly seen
quite fully formed just anterior to the anal pair of spiracles long before ..."
6. Insect Transformations.. by James Rennie (1830)
"Upon examining the structure of the spiracles, M. Reaumur farther discovered that
their mouths are furnished with ciliary valves, which are shut when the ..."
7. Butterflies and Moths (British) by William S. Furneaux (1894)
"These are the spiracles or openings of a series of air tubes ... There are nine
spiracles on each side of the caterpillar's body, and never more than one in ..."
8. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1901)
"THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. developed at the opening of the spiracles in many insects
... There are four pairs of spiracles present in the young of an ..."
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