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Book Excerpt: ...genesis; gamogenesis.Agglomerate: heaped or massed together.Agglutinate: stuck or glued together; welded into one mass.Aggregated: crowded together as closely as possible.Agnathous: without jaws; specifically applied to those Neuropteroid series in which the mouth structures are obsolescent.Aileron: the scale covering the base of primaries in some insects; see tegulae in Diptera = alula and squama, q.v.Air-sacs or vesicles: pouch-like expansions of tracheal tubes in heavy insects, capable of inflation and supposed to lessen specific gravity.Air-tube: a respiratory siphon.Ala -ae: a wing or wings.Alar appendage: see alulet.Alar frenum: a small ligament crossing the supra-alar groove toward the root of the wing: Hymenoptera.Alary: relating to the wings: applied also to the wing muscles of heart.Alate -us: winged; with lobes similar to wings in appearance though not necessarily in function.Albi, albus: white...
