Lexicographical Neighbors of Procryptic
Literary usage of Procryptic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1910)
"... protective and aggressive resemblance, colors which enable an animal to conceal
itself from its enemies or to approach its prey unseen, procryptic and ..."
2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1915)
"(2) A second class of female patterns is procryptic, meeting the special needs
of the sex by promoting concealment. (3) In a third class the whole or a ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... where the likeness to the models after which they are named is procryptic;
and also by various species of tropical Mantidae which resemble flowers for ..."
4. Outlines of Evolutionary Biology by Arthur Dendy (1912)
"... but it is much more likely that it is protective (procryptic). The late
Professor Bell has told us how the slow and sluggish habits of the crab render ..."
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