Citations:speculiferous
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English citations of speculiferous
- 1800, William Turton (translator), Carl Linnaeus (author), Johann Friedrich Gmelin (editor and expander of the Latin original), A General System of Nature, through the Three Grand Kingdoms of Animals, Vegetables and Minerals, volume II, kingdom: Animals, class: Insects, order: Coleoptera, Genus: Cicindela, Species: Danica (page 399):
- Black, above brown bronzed: ſhells with lateral remote ſtriæ, the back ſpeculiferous.
- 1852, John Craig, A New Universal Technological, Etymological, and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, Embracing all the terms used in Science, Literature, and Art, volume II: “J–Zythurn”, page 331/1, “Pennatula”:
- Pennatula, pen-natʹu-la, s. (penna, a feather, Lat.) A genus of polypiform Zoophytes, provided with eight pectinated tentacula, entirely retractile, and irregularly disposed on the edge of a sort of spears or lateral pinnules, which are symmetrically placed along the whole extent of a regular, symmetrical, speculiferous rachis.