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Animals

Any living creature of the Kingdom Animalia constituting multi-celled organisms as well as single-celled organisms lacking chlorophyll and having the ability for spontaneous movement, such as protozoans.

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axillary sclerites

Animals; Insects

Sclerites at base of wing.

stridulate

Animals; Insects

To make a sound by rubbing two ridged or roughened surfaces together.

bifurcate

Animals; Insects

Two-pronged, or divided into two branches or parts.

stridulation

Animals; Insects

The production of sounds by rubbing two parts of the body together: best known in grasshoppers and other orthopterans.

brood

Animals; Insects

Individual insects that hatch from the same mother at approximately the same time.

stylets

Animals; Insects

Needle-like form: applied to the various components of piercing mouthparts and also to a part of the sting of a bee or other hymenopteran.

brood cells

Animals; Insects

The individual chambers in a hive where the egg is laid and the larva develop.

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