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Definition of Subsegments
1. subsegment [n] - See also: subsegment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subsegments
Literary usage of Subsegments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1906)
"The abdominal segments are divided into 5 subsegments, of which the first is the
largest, and unites with the .second at about the level of iii; ..."
2. The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada: With Special by Samuel Hubbard Scudder, William Morris Davis, Charles William Woodworth, Leland Ossian Howard, Charles Valentine Riley, Samuel Wendell Williston (1889)
"The next degree of complication is found in the remaining Nymphalinae which have
four subsegments, the anterior the larger and always bearing the principal ..."
3. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt (1890)
"There appear to be five ill-defined subsegments ; a medio-dorsal furrow on ...
The skin is well sprinkled with black following the subsegments transversely. ..."
4. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1906)
"The 6th subsegment carries two ' mesothorax has four subsegments, ... the metathorax
with six subsegments, the first large, second carries two ..."
5. The British and Foreign Medical Review: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical (1845)
"Each of these subsegments retains its legs, both pairs being equally developed.
... 1 he two subsegments of which each moveable division of the body of the ..."
6. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1902)
"... and much less denned subsegmental incisions (6 subsegments to abdominal ...
black—the first and last subsegments of two successive segments make the ..."
7. Aquatic Insects in New York State by James George Needham (1903)
"But, when the ventral aspect is studied, we find that the transverse divisions
separating the segments into subsegments are wanting, and that each ..."
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