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Definition of Poisers
1. poiser [n] - See also: poiser
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poisers
Literary usage of Poisers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. List of the Specimens of Dipterous Insects in the Collection of the British by Francis Walker (1849)
"lower cross-vein straight, separated by its length from the middle cross-vein,
slightly oblique ; poisers tawny. Length of the body 21 lines ; of the wings ..."
2. An Introduction to Entomology: Or, Elements of the Natural History of by William Kirby, William Spence (1846)
"He next cut off the poisers—the buzzing went on. This experiment was repeated
eighteen times with the same result. Lastly, when he took off the winglets, ..."
3. Narrative of an Expedition to the Sources of St. Peter's River, Lake by William Hypolitus Keating, Stephen Harriman Long, Thomas Say, Lewis David von Schweinitz, James Edward Calhoun, Joseph Lovell (1824)
"9 A little larger, with the base of the feet and of the poisers of a darker ...
Body hardly polished and nearly opaque, immaculate; poisers colour of the ..."
4. Insect Miscellanies.. by James Rennie (1831)
"If one of the poisers," he says, " or one of the lesser auxiliary wing« be cut off,
... The use, no doubt, of these poisers, and secondary lesser wings, ..."
5. List of the Specimens of Dipterous Insects in the Collection of the British by Francis Walker (1848)
"Body brown, shining: abdomen dark brown: feelers pale brown : legs dull yellow ;
shanks white: wings colourless; veins dull yellow; poisers brown. ..."
6. Bulletin by Maine Agricultural Experiment Station (1913)
"A little larger with the base of the feet and of the poisers of a darker shade
... Wings hyaline, nervures fuscous; poisers large; coxae and thighs pale or ..."
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