Definition of Pygals

1. pygal [n] - See also: pygal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pygals

pyelography
pyelonephritic
pyelonephritides
pyelonephritis
pyeloplasties
pyeloplasty
pyemia
pyemias
pyemic
pyengadu
pyengadus
pyes
pyet
pyets
pygal
pygals (current term)
pygarg
pygargs
pygargus
pygidia
pygidial
pygidium
pygidiums
pygmaean
pygmalion
pygmalions
pygmean
pygmies
pygmoid
pygmy

Literary usage of Pygals

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

1. The University Geological Survey of Kansas by Erasmus Haworth, Kansas Geological Survey (1898)
"There are six pygals, and their transverse processes are stouter and flatter ... The vertebrae bearing transverse processes behind the pygals are fewer in ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"The number of pygals,or non chevron-bearing caudals, cannot be determined, because many chevrons are not exposed. The vertebral formula is therefore as ..."

3. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1922)
"The column is continuous to the pygals, where they are scattered. ... One found by Levi Sternberg has much of the head, the column, and ribs to the pygals. ..."

4. Fieldiana: Geology by Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago Natural History Museum (1907)
"The tenth presents an equal surface to articulate with the eighth pleural and the first two pygals. ..."

5. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1904)
"There are seven neural bones and three pygals; the latter form a protective covering for the tail and project below the level 1 " A Preliminary Notice of a ..."

6. Text-book of Paleontology by Karl Alfred von Zittel (1902)
"The peripherals and pygals owe their origin entirely to dermal ossification. There are normally eight pairs of neural plates, but some fossil marine forms ..."

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