testaceous
IPA: tɛstˈeɪʃʌs
adjective
- (obsolete) Pertaining to earthenware or baked clay.
- Having a shell, especially one which is not articulated.
- Of a dull orange or brownish colour, like brick.
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Examples of "testaceous" in Sentences
- Abdomen testaceous at the base beneath; first band interrupted, having before it two testaceous spots.
- Entirely pale rufo-testaceous, excepting the eyes and abdomen which are jet black; the nodes of the petiole pale, smooth, and shining.
- From IV 2-10 he discusses the parts, both internal and external, of the ˜bloodless™ animals, i.e. the crustaceans, testaceous mollusks, cephalopods and insects.
- Thorax: the tegulæ pale rufo-testaceous, wings hyaline, the nervures ferruginous; the metathorax coarsely rugose; the articulations of the legs and the tarsi ferruginous.
- While in other animals the glutinous is dry, for which reason the covering of the invertebrates is testaceous or crustaceous, in the vertebrates it is rather of the nature of fat.
- Crabs also slough off their old-age; this is generally allowed with regard to the soft-shelled crabs, and it is said to be the case with the testaceous kind, as for instance with the large ‘granny’ crab.
- The foregoing remarks appear to apply to the case of the Mollusca, which, at a very early period, had reached a high organization and a great development of forms and species in the testaceous Cephalopoda.
- Of testaceous animals, on the contrary, no direct sensible evidence is as yet forthcoming to determine whether they sleep, but if the above reasoning be convincing to any one, he who follows it will admit this [viz. that they do so.]
- Now in the sea the earthy matter is present in large quantities, and consequently the testaceous animals are formed from a concretion of this kind, the earthy matter hardening round them and solidifying in the same manner as bones and horns (for these cannot be melted by fire), and the matter (or body) which contains the life being included within it.
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