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Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: Complete Work - Best Text

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Eear see auricleeaves n.pl. [A.S. efes, lower border <strong>of</strong> a ro<strong>of</strong>] (MOLL: Polyplacophora)Portions <strong>of</strong> the tegmentum just over the linewhere the insertion plates and the sutural laminae project.eave tissue (MOLL: Polyplacophora) Composition <strong>of</strong> the shellthat forms the eaves; either porcelaneous or riddled withmicroscopic tubules (spongy).eburnean a. [L. eburneus, ivory] Made <strong>of</strong>, or like ivory; ivorywhite.ecalcarate a. [Gr. ek, out <strong>of</strong>; L. calcar, spur] Lacking spurs orcalcaria.ecarinate a. [Gr. ek, out <strong>of</strong>; L. carina, keel] Without a keel orcarina.ecaudate a. [Gr. ek, out <strong>of</strong>; L. cauda, tail] Lacking a cauda ortail-like process or structure; excaudate.ecaudate wing (ARTHRO: Insecta) A wing lacking a tail-likeprocess.ecbolic see hydrelacticeccentric a. [Gr. ek, out <strong>of</strong>; kentron, center] 1. Deviation fromthe regular. 2. (MOLL) Having an operculum with growth onone side <strong>of</strong> the nucleus only, and to one side <strong>of</strong> the center.ecdemic a. [Gr. ekdemos, away from home] Disease broughtinto a region from outside; neither endemic nor epidemic.ecdysial cleavage line see epicranial sutureecdysial fluid see molting fluidecdysial glands see prothoracic glandsecdysial membrane (ARTHRO: Insecta) A thin membraneformed from the lateral lamellae <strong>of</strong> the old procuticle that istanned by the polyphenols and phenoloxidase associatedwith the new outer epicuticle during molting.ecdysial tube (ARTHRO: Insecta) In some Diptera and Coleop-

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