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Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: Complete Work - Best Text

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Bbaccate a. [L. bacca, berry] Berry-like in appearance; bacciform.bacillary a. [L. bacillum, little stick] Rod-shaped, or consisting<strong>of</strong> rod-shaped structures.bacillary band (NEMATA) A modification <strong>of</strong> the hypodermis,consisting <strong>of</strong> glandular and nonglandular cells.bacillary layer see brush borderbacilliform a. [L. bacillum, little stick; forma, shape] 1. Rodshaped.2. (ARTHRO: Insecta) In certain male Diptera, refersto a pair <strong>of</strong> sclerites in the postabdomen joining thehypandrium and epandrium.back n. [A.S. baec, the rear or dorsal part] The dorsal or uppersurface.back-cross A cross between a heterozygote and one <strong>of</strong> its parents.back-mutation The reversion by mutation <strong>of</strong> a mutant gene tothe form from which it was derived.bacteremia n. [Gr. bakterion, small rod; haima, blood] Thepresence <strong>of</strong> bacteria in the hemolymph or blood <strong>of</strong> invertebrates,without production <strong>of</strong> harmful toxins or other deleteriouseffects.bacteriophagous a. [Gr. bakterion, small rod; phagein, toeat] Feeding on bacteria.baculiform a. [L. baculum, stick or rod; forma, shape] Appearingrod- or staff-like.baculite n. [L. baculum, stick or rod] (MOLL: Cephalopoda) Astraight shelled ammonite, extinct at the end <strong>of</strong> the CretaceousPeriod.baenomere n. [Gr. bainein, to walk; meros, part] (ARTHRO:Insecta) The leg-bearing thoracic segment.baenopoda n. [Gr. bainein, to walk; pous, foot] (ARTHRO: Insecta)The thoracic legs.

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