Definition of Foveolet

1. a foveola [n -S] - See also: foveola

Lexicographical Neighbors of Foveolet

foveola coccygea
foveola gastrica
foveola ocularis
foveola papillaris
foveola retinae
foveola suprameatica
foveolae
foveolae granulares
foveolar
foveolar cells of stomach
foveolas
foveolate
foveolated
foveole
foveoles
foveolet (current term)
foveolets
foveolæ
foveæ
fovilla
fovillae
fower
fowers
fowl
fowl-house
fowl-houses
fowl cholera
fowl diphtheria
fowl erythroblastosis
fowl erythroblastosis virus

Literary usage of Foveolet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of British Coleoptera, Or Beetles: Containing a Brief Description by James Francis Stephens (1839)
"... thorax smooth, with an oblong foveolet in the middle of the apex, and 3 joined by an impressed line at the base ; legs and antenna; pale testaceous, ..."

2. British Entomology: Being Illustrations and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by John Curtis by John Curtis (1840)
"Black, the thorax less punctured, and the anterior foveolet scarcely visible. This probably is only a smooth variety of E. viridi- ..."

3. Catalogue of the Coleopterous Insects of Madeira in the Collection of the by Thomas Vernon Wollaston (1857)
"Prothorax with a narrow, abbreviated, central foveolet in front, and with three larger and deeper ones (which are joined by a transversely impressed line) ..."

4. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society by Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1832)
"In some specimens the anterior foveolet is obsolete ; and, if this circumstance is to be regarded as indicating nothing more than a casual variety, ..."

5. The Journal of Entomology (1862)
"... species from the Cape of Good Hope,—in which the eyes are remarkably apparent, though to a certain extent buried within this lateral foveolet, or slit. ..."

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