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Nervure   Listen
noun
Nervure  n.  
1.
(Bot.) One of the nerves of leaves.
2.
(Zool.) One of the chitinous supports, or veins, in the wings of insects.





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"Nervure" Quotes from Famous Books



... sounds, we found, were produced by the overlapping edges of the wing-cases, which they rub together. In each wing-case the inner edge, near the lower part, has a horny expansion. On one wing this horny expansion is furnished with a sharp raised margin; on the other, the strong nervure which traverses it on the other side is crossed by a number of short, sharp furrows, like those of a file. When, therefore, the insect rapidly moves its wings, the file of one expansion scrapes sharply across the horny margin ...
— On the Banks of the Amazon • W.H.G. Kingston
... Marginal nervure or vein: in Orthoptera, costa (Comst.): in Hymenoptera (Norton) radius 3 (Comst.): in general, the vein forming the ...
— Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology • John. B. Smith
... and inner margins nearly equal, about two-thirds the length of the anterior. Costal nervure two-thirds the entire length of the wing; subcostal nervule slightly deflected towards the end of the cell, throwing off its first nervule at about one-third of its length, the second about the middle of its course, the space between the origins of the second and third ...
— Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. • J Lort Stokes


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