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Definition of Tracheoles
1. tracheole [n] - See also: tracheole
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tracheoles
Literary usage of Tracheoles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1904)
"In dried, air-filled material mounted in weak glycerine the tracheoles as well
as the larger tracheal tubes were filled with air. After about five minutes ..."
2. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"The tracheoles are exceedingly slender, measuring less than one micron in diameter;
... The tracheoles are probably the essential organs of respiration, ..."
3. A Text-book of Entomology: Including the Anatomy, Physiology, Embryology and by Alpheus Spring Packard (1898)
"Extension of the wing; drawing out of the tracheoles. ... The bundles of tracheoles
on their part form straight lines, as if the folds of the organ had had ..."
4. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1905)
"The manner of development of the tracheoles is the same in all the beetles examined.
Figs. 3 and 23 show an early stage in their development. ..."
5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1919)
"Though the number of these embedded tracheoles is small, numerous tracheae ...
The fact that no tracheoles were traced through or even up to the pigmented ..."
6. Entomology, with Special Reference to Its Ecological Aspects by Justus Watson Folsom (1922)
"178) are extremely delicate tubes, or tracheoles, which rarely end blindly, ...
Respiration takes place doubtless by means of the tracheoles rather than the ..."
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