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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> 841the palpus.sphaeridium n.; pl. -idia [Gr. dim. sphaira, ball] (ECHINOD)Minute, spherical bodies covered by ciliated epidermis,usually lodged in pits in the test or almost completely enclosed;confined to the ambulacral areas around the mouthor scattered along the entire ambulacra; believed to begravity receptors.sphaeroclone n. [Gr. dim. sphaira, ball; klon, twig] (PORIF) Amegasclere spicule with a subglobular desma produced byswelling <strong>of</strong> the centrum.sphecology n. [Gr. sphex, wasp; logos, discourse] The study<strong>of</strong> wasps.sphecophile n. [Gr. sphex, wasp; philos, love] (ARTHRO: Insecta)A symbiont <strong>of</strong> wasps; any organism that must spendat least a portion <strong>of</strong> its life cycle in a wasp colony.sphenoid a. [Gr. sphen, wedge; eidos, like] Wedge shaped;cuneate; cuneiform.spherasters n. [Gr. sphaira, ball; aster, star] (PORIF) A largecenteredspicule with many definite rays.spheres n.pl. [Gr. sphaira, ball] 1. Any globular body. 2. (PO-RIF) Rounded bodies in which growth is concentric around acenter.spherocyte see spherule cellspheroidocyte n. [Gr. sphaira, ball; eidos, form; kytos, container](ARTHRO: Insecta) Round hemocytes with fat-likedroplets, granular and other inclusions and occasionallycrystals.spherula n. [Gr. dim. sphaira, ball] A small sphere.spherular cell see spherule cellspherulate a. [Gr. dim. sphaira, ball] Having one or more rows<strong>of</strong> minute tubercles.spherule cell (ARTHRO: Insecta) Hemocytes, varying in shape,that possess few to many, acidophilic inclusions, that mayfill the whole cell. see spherulocyte.spherulocyte n. [Gr. dim. sphaira, ball; kytos, hollow] (AR-THRO: Insecta) Ovoid or round hemocytes, variable in size,

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