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Galea   /gˈeɪliə/   Listen
Galea

noun
1.
An organ shaped like a helmet; usually a vaulted and enlarged petal as in Aconitum.





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"Galea" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the caterpillar. The larval feelers (fig. 3 At) are short and stumpy, those of the butterfly long and many-jointed. The maxilla of the larva (fig. 3 Mx) consists of a base carrying two short jointed processes; in the butterfly a certain portion of the maxilla, the hood or galea, is modified into a long, flexible grooved process, capable of forming with its fellow the trunk through which the insect sucks its liquid food (fig. 2). Nothing but some such provision as that of the imaginal discs could render possible the wonderful replacement of the ...
— The Life-Story of Insects • Geo. H. Carpenter
... Velasquez to be equally characteristic of the female faces of that region, making due allowance for the superb head dresses of tropical plumage, with which he describes the latter as being adorned, instead of the male galea, or close cap, retained ...
— Memoir of an Eventful Expedition in Central America • Pedro Velasquez
... maxilla; see galea (outer) and lacinia (inner): of the mentum in Coleoptera, are the lateral expansions shielding the base of ...
— Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology • John. B. Smith


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