Lexicographical Neighbors of Midlegs
Literary usage of Midlegs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bahama Islands by George Burbank Shattuck, Geographical Society of Baltimore (1905)
"... first two tarsi basally white, banded, remainder black; in the midlegs the
markings are the same, but there is a trace of banding on the third tarsus, ..."
2. The Fertilisation of Flowers by Hermann Müller (1883)
"While the head and its proboscis were thus placed just as if they were sucking
honey from the base of the flower, the midlegs were in active movement, ..."
3. An Introduction to Entomology: Or Elements of the Natural History of Insects by William Kirby, William Spence (1826)
"... and lie between the midlegs and the Pte- • PLATE IX. FIG. 5, 11. g". b PLATES
VIII. IX. XXVIII. K. ' Ibid.A. * PLATI. IX. FIG. ..."
4. Journal of a Tour in the Levant by William Turner (1820)
"... but was now nearly dry, having only several narrow streams crossing each other
on its wide bed, and which scarcely reached to our horses' midlegs. ..."
5. Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly (1918)
"... tibiae and tarsi black, the anterior legs similarly colored; the midlegs have
the femora quite a little darker at the base; claws stout, strongly curved ..."
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