| antennule | A little antenna; a tiny organ of the nature of an antenna. | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| biserial | Arranged in two rows or series. | 1839 | Go To Quotation |
| bourlaw | A form of byrlaw n., used in the comb. bourlawmen n. in south of Scotland. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| brachelytrous | Pertaining to the Brachelytra, a division of the beetles distinguished by the shortness of their wing-sheaths. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| branchiform | Like or resembling gills. | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| Camberwell Beauty | A collector's name for a species of butterfly (Vanessa Antiopa), occasionally seen in England. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| cupreo- | combining form of cupreous adj., coppery in colour. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| depressedly | In a depressed manner. | 1842 | Go To Quotation |
| dorsally | In a dorsal position or direction; on or towards the back. | 1839 | Go To Quotation |
| elytrous | That resembles or has the nature of elytra. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| emigratory | Of animals: = migratory adj. rare. | 1839 | Go To Quotation |
| encrinal | = encrinital adj. | 1845 | Go To Quotation |
| erectopatent | Entomol. ‘When the primary wings of an insect at rest are erect and the secondary horizontal’ (Maunder 1848). | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| exannulose | Of certain invertebrate animals: Having a body not consisting of rings or ring-like segments. | 1832 | Go To Quotation |
| excremential | = excremental adj. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| extrusile | Capable of being thrust forth. | 1849 | Go To Quotation |
| fibrilloso- | = fibrillose adj. b. | 1846 | Go To Quotation |
| fovea | A small depression or pit; esp. a depression of the retina of the eye; fovea centralis, the fovea of the retina. | 1849 | Go To Quotation |
| foveated | Marked with foveæ, pitted. | 1846 | Go To Quotation |
| foveola | A small fovea. | 1849 | Go To Quotation |
| foveolate | Marked with little depressions or pits; pitted. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| fusco- | used as combining form of Latin fuscus ‘dusky’, in certain adjs., as fusco-ferruginous adj.… | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| galeoid | Ichthyol. Resembling a shark or dog-fish. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| griseo- | comb. form of medieval Latin grīseus grey, used in sense ‘greyish’, as griseo-fuscous adj. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| hareld | A species of sea-duck, Harelda glacialis. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| hibernacular | Of or pertaining to a hibernacle. | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| hirsuties | (See quot. 1849.) | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| kame | north. and Sc. form of comb n. 6d (q.v.) in various senses, esp. that of a steep and… | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| latero- | | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| lingulate | Tongue-shaped. | 1849 | Go To Quotation |
| mammilliform | Shaped like or resembling a mamilla; nipple-shaped. | 1843 | Go To Quotation |
| mowdie | The Eurasian mole, Talpa europaea. Freq. attrib. | 1656 | Go To Quotation |
| muciferous | Containing, secreting, or covered with mucus or mucoid material; conveying mucus; (in… | 1842 | Go To Quotation |
| nestage | Nesting; nests. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| nudibranchial | = nudibranch adj. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| ocelli- | bearing an ocellus or ocelli, ocellated. | 1844 | Go To Quotation |
| olivaceo- | Prefixed to adjectives to denote a colour mixed or tinged with olive, as olivaceo-aeneous, olivaceo-cinereous adjs. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| piceo- | of a colour between brownish-black and rust-coloured. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| picescent | Somewhat resembling pitch in colour; tending to brownish-black. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| semilunate | = lunate adj. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| slaky | Muddy. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| squamulose | Furnished or covered with small scales. | 1846 | Go To Quotation |
| striolate | Marked with striolæ. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| trigger | = trig n. | 1843 | Go To Quotation |
| Tuedian | An epithet applied by George Tate in 1856 to the lowest beds of the Carboniferous… | 1856 | Go To Quotation |
| tuesite | An indurated variety of lithomarge of a milk-white colour. | 1837 | Go To Quotation |
| uniserial | Arranged in, consisting of, one series or row; characterized by this kind of form or arrangement. | 1839 | Go To Quotation |
| unsegmented | (un- prefix 8.) | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| versicolorous | = versicolorate adj. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| welled | Having a well or hollow on the surface, pitted. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| xantholiniform | Resembling in form the beetles of the genus Xantholinus. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
