Definition of Terebrae

1. terebra [n] - See also: terebra

Lexicographical Neighbors of Terebrae

terebene
terebenes
terebenthene
terebic
terebic acid
terebilenic
terebilenic acid
terebinth
terebinthic
terebinthina
terebinthinate
terebinthine
terebinthinism
terebinths
terebra
terebrae (current term)
terebrant
terebrantia
terebras
terebrating
terebration
terebrations
terebratula
terebratulas
terebratulid
terebratulids
terebratuliform
teredine
teredines
teredinid

Literary usage of Terebrae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. 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 (1834)
"... a callus on the columella, and in a vestige of an emargination near the bottom of the aperture, which seems to indicate a relation with the terebrae of ..."

2. A Conchological Manual by George Brettingham Sowerby (1839)
"Bl. A genus composed of TEREBRA MACULATA, Auct. and other similar species, which are more ventricose than most of the terebrae. Fig. 428. ..."

3. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1912)
"... on a guest of "Eciton hamatum," 5, xix, 98-100. Mitchell & Pierce.—The ants of Victoria County, Texas, 102, xiv, 67-76. Morice, FD—The terebrae of the ..."

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