Definition of Hooklet

1. n. A little hook.

Definition of Hooklet

1. Noun. (context: especially in natural history) A small or minute (hook). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hooklet

1. a small hook [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hooklet

hookers
hookey
hookeys
hookgun
hookguns
hookier
hookies
hookiest
hooking
hooking up
hookium
hookkeeper
hookkeepers
hookless
hooklet (current term)
hooklets
hooklike
hookling
hookman
hooknose
hooknosed
hooknoses
hooks
hooks and eyes
hooks up
hookswitch
hookswitches
hooktop heng

Literary usage of Hooklet

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

1. The Canadian Entomologist by Charles James Stewart Bethune, W. Saunders, Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), E. B. Reed, Entomological Society of Ontario (1878)
"Abides, in which the antennal hooklet is curved, has a very short, thick, conical apical joint to the palpi). Edwards places here two North American species ..."

2. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia by Entomological Society of Philadelphia (1864)
"C. Genital hooklet, much magnified.—D. Penis, much magnified, seen from above ... The last ventral, to the tip of which the genital hooklet (c) is attached, ..."

3. Human Cestoides: An Essay on the Tapeworms of Man by David Friedrich Weinland (1858)
"From a to b, Thorn of the hooklet ; this part bores into the walls of the ... From b to c, Foot of the hooklet, which lies in the muscular tissue of the ..."

4. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions by Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London (1845)
"The dotted line represents the outer surface of the neck, and runs through the fixed point of the three hooks. /. A hooklet in the erect position, ..."

5. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1861)
"Each hooklet is individually motile. It may be retracted deeply into the finely striated fleshy envelope with which it is encompassed, so that even the very ..."

6. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1906)
"152) the characters of at least four groups belonging to this subfamily, which read as follows :— A. Club of antenna thick, with a sharp apical hooklet. ..."

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