Definition of Oil gland

1. Noun. A gland that secretes oil.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Oil Gland

oil business
oil cake
oil cartel
oil change
oil color
oil company
oil conservation
oil cyst
oil embolism
oil field
oil fields
oil filter
oil furnace
oil future
oil geologist
oil gland (current term)
oil glands
oil heater
oil industry
oil lamp
oil meal
oil mill
oil nut
oil of American wormseed
oil of anise
oil of bay
oil of bergamot
oil of bitter almond
oil of bitter orange
oil of cardamom

Literary usage of Oil gland

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

1. Essays on Natural History, Chiefly Ornithology by Charles Waterton (1844)
"THE WINDHOVER HAWK, AND THE OIL- GLAND. ON my return from Belgium, in the middle of May, 1844, whilst perusing the seventeenth number of the Zoologist, ..."

2. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"The stuffing-box is usually provided with a thimble or oil-gland Y placed about midway between the two ends. A certain amount of packing is first inserted ..."

3. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1876)
"Have an ambiens muscle, caeca, and oil gland ; no gall bladder ; 12 rectrices ... Accessory femoro-caudal muscle absent ; oil gland and gall bladder present ..."

4. Charles Waterton, His Home, Habits, and Handiwork: Reminiscences of an by Richard Hobson (1867)
"To those readers who may not be versed in ornithological anatomy or physiology, I should explain, that the oil-gland in birds is situated at the extreme end ..."

5. Birds by Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford (1889)
"No ambiens muscle, oil-gland, or intestinal circa ; tarsus shorter than tbe ... Ambiens and oil-gland present, no caeca; tarsus longer than middle toe ..."

6. The Collected Scientific Papers of the Late Alfred Henry Garrod by Alfred Henry Garrod, William Alexander Forbes (1881)
"(7) With no oil-gland, no caeca, and no ambiens muscle, viz. Treron, Goura. The only combination not found being that (8) in which, of the three structures ..."

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