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Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: Complete Work - Best Text

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<strong>Online</strong> <strong>Dictionary</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Invertebrate</strong> <strong>Zoology</strong> 53amplexiform wing coupling (ARTHRO: Insecta) Lepidopterouswing coupling by virtue <strong>of</strong> an extensive area <strong>of</strong> overlapbetween the fore and hind wing.ampliate a. [L. ampliatus, made wider] To enlarge; to makegreater.amplification n. [L. amplificare, to enlarge] An enlargement orextension; expanding a statement or description.anamorphosis n.; pl. -ses [Gr. ana, backwards; morphosis,forming] 1. A process <strong>of</strong> slow, steady evolution without apparentgross mutant variation. 2. (ARTHRO: Insecta) a. Theincrease <strong>of</strong> number <strong>of</strong> segments after hatching. b. Developmentin which the young gradually become more like theadult in body form after each ecdysis, as opposed tometamorphosis. anamorphic a. see ametabolous, metamorphosis,epimorphosis.anandric a. [Gr. an, without; aner, man] (ANN: Oligochaeta)Designating earthworms without testes.anaphase n. [Gr. ana, up; phasis, appearance] The period <strong>of</strong>mitotic division in which the daughter chromosomes movetoward opposite poles.anaphylaxis n. [Gr. ana, again; phylax, guard] A state <strong>of</strong> excessivesensitivity to a serum or foreign protein that canresult in a state <strong>of</strong> shock, that may develop with markedcirculatory disturbances and possible death. anaphylactica.anaplasis n. [Gr. ana, up; plassein, to form] Progressive ontogeneticdevelopment.anapleurite n. [Gr. ana, up; pleuron, side] (ARTHRO: Insecta)A dorsal sclerite <strong>of</strong> the thoracic pleural region.anapolysis n. [Gr. an, without; apo-, separate; lysis, loosen](PLATY: Cestoda) The detachment <strong>of</strong> a spent proglottid afterit has shed its eggs. anapolytic a. see apolysis.anapterygote a. [Gr. an, not; a, without; pterygotos, winged](ARTHRO: Insecta) Designates apterous insects that are derivedfrom winged ancestors.anaptychus n. [Gr. an, without; apo-, away from; ptychos,fold] (MOLL: Cephalopoda) A shelly plate found in some fos-

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