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Definition of Tibiae
1. tibia [n] - See also: tibia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tibiae
Literary usage of Tibiae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the by Francis Walker, John Edward Gray (1856)
"Legs slender; hi tibiae with four very long spurs. Wings somewhat ample, with
vitreous spots. Fore wings straight in front, rounded at the tips, ..."
2. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1897)
"Palpi long ; hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs Himala. Palpi short; hind tibiae
with one pair of spurs 26. 26. Secondaries with veinlets between vein 1 ..."
3. The American History and Encyclopedia of Music by Janet M. Green, Josephine Thrall (1908)
"A general name given to a number of stops on the organ. tibiae ... being so
arranged that both could be played at the same time. tierce tibiae major ..."
4. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences by Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences (1875)
"Fore wings produced at apices, with straight or slightly depressed costa ; fore
tibiae with a row of three stout outer and a longer inner terminal claw ..."
5. Guide to the Study of Insects and a Treatise on Those Injurious and by Alpheus Spring Packard (1876)
"... the well developed tibial spurs, the expansion of the anterior tibiae at the
apex, and in the close connection between the front and the labrum. ..."
6. British Entomology: Being Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by John Curtis by John Curtis (1840)
"I consider the sex with angulated basal joints to the antennae and notched tibiae
to be the male; but Mr. Denny gives the first as indicative of the female ..."
7. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1915)
"Legs moderate, the femora whitish beneath nearly to tip; knees broadly silvery
white; tibiae and tarsi brown with a bluish reflection; ..."