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Entomology
The study of insects.
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pruinose
Biology; Entomology
Covered with a powdery deposit, usually white or pale blue: especially applied to Odonata.
punctate
Biology; Entomology
Covered with tiny pits or depressions, like the elytra of many beetles and the thoraxes of many hymenopterans.
coarctate
Biology; Entomology
Enclosed within the last larval skin, which therefore acts as a cocoon and protects the pupa. Such pupae are found in the flies (Diptera, of the sub-order Cyclorrhapha.).
malpighian tubes
Biology; Entomology
Excretory tubes of insects arising from the anterior end of the hindgut and extending into the body cavity.
