Cerci

Word CERCI
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Definitions and meanings of "Cerci"

What do we mean by cerci?

Structures on the end of on the end of the abdomen of most insects, sometimes long, hairlike sensory organs and sometimes smaller and rigid.

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The word "cerci" in example sentences

The legs are about the same size and length and are set back underneath the body. cerci, which is a pair of appendages near the end of the abdomen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But it is not, because I found it in a sealed bag therefore, it came out of a snail shell & it has a pair of cerci that are characteristics of drilid larvae. ❋ AYDIN (2009)

This particular individual was ~4.5 mm long from the front of its head to the tips of the appendages cerci at the rear end. ❋ AYDIN (2007)

Cercopoda: jointed foot-like appendages of the last abdominal segment; also applied like cerci. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

Penicilli: a pair of small style or cerci-like pieces on the tip of the 8th dorsal segment of abdomen of various male Hymenoptera. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

Infra-cereal plates: in Orthoptera - generally inconspicuous paired plates which underlie in part the cerci and in part the lateral portion of the supra-anal plate. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

Anal fork: applied to the cerci of Coleopterous larvae. ❋ John. B. Smith (N/A)

The young of one of our large species, a Perla for example, has well-chitinised cuticle, broad head, powerful legs, long feelers and cerci like those of the imago; its wings arise from external rudiments, which are conspicuous in the later aquatic stages. ❋ Unknown (1902)

A. the base of the tail-feelers or cerci also, there are little tufts of thread-like gills as J.A. Palmén (1877) has shown. ❋ Unknown (1902)

One feature in which the larva often agrees with the imago is the possession on the terminal abdominal segment of a pair of long jointed cerci, and in many genera a median jointed tail-process (see fig. 9) is also present, in some cases both in the larva and the imago, in others in the larva during its later stages only. ❋ Unknown (1902)

From the egg of one of these beetles is hatched a minute armoured larva, with long feelers, legs, and cerci, whose task is, for example, to seize hold of a bee in order that the latter may carry it, an uninvited guest, to her nest. ❋ Unknown (1902)

It resembles a Dobsonfly except has orangy-red colouring, anal cerci, no pinchers, and wings are held flat (not roof like) against its body. ❋ Online (2010)

The abdomen extends well beyond the wings, and frequently, though not always, ends in a pair of forceps-like structures termed cerci. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Most have forceps-like cerci (pichers) on the last segment of their abdomen. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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