Totidem: in all parts; entirely.
T.P. line: transverse posterior line; crossing the primaries of certain
Lepidoptera, two-thirds or more from base: = post medial line.
Trabecula: rounded, lobular masses of the procerebrum, from which
arise the stalks bearing the mushroom bodies: a paired movable
appendage in front of the antennae in certain bird-lice.
Trachea -ae: the spirally ringed breathing tube or tubes of insects.
Tracheal gills: the flattened or hair-like processes in aquatic larvae
through which oxygen is absorbed from the water.
Tracheary: relating to or composed of tracheae.
Tracheate: supplied with trachea: a general term applied to all
articulates that breathe by means of spiracular openings into a
system of tubular structures that extend to all parts of the body.
Tracheation: the arrangement or system of distribution of trachea.
Tracheoles: the capillary trachea of the adult as they develop in
masses in the larva: very small, slender tracheae.
Transection: a cut across, at right angles to the body: transverse
section.
Transition zone: is the transcontinental belt in which the austral and
boreal elements overlap: it is divided into a humid or Alleghanian
area; a western arid area; and a Pacific Coast humid area: all of
which see.
Transitory: lasting for a short time only.
Translucent: semi-transparent; admitting the passage of light but not
of vision.
Translucid: clear: transparent enough to be seen through.
Transparent: so clear as not to obstruct vision.
Transverse: when the longest diameter is across the body.
Transverse incision: = transverse sulci.
Transverse sulci: the transverse grooves of pronotum in many
Orthoptera.
Transverse suture: in Diptera, a transverse groove extending inward
from the root of wing and obsolete in the middle of dorsum.
Trapeziform: in the form or shape of a trapezium.
Trapezium: a four-sided figure in which no two sides are parallel.
{Scanner's comment: sic This is presumably an error in editing the
original text. A trapezium has two sides parallel. Compare next item.}
Trapezoid -al: a four-sided plane of which two sides are parallel and
two are not.
Tri-: three; a combining form.
Triangle: in Odonata: a small, triangular cell at the junction of cubitus
with cubitus 1: a similar cell adjoining it basally is the internal
triangle discoidal triangle: cardinal cell; q.v.
Tri-articulate: composed of three joints or articles.
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