Crustacea glossary. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. 2011.
dorsal process — (Class Ostracoda): Dorsal forked projection of basal segment of maxillule [Stachowitsch, 1992] … Crustacea glossary
Fork (operating system) — In computing, when a process forks, it creates a copy of itself, which is called a child process. The original process is then called the parent process . More generally, a fork in a multithreading environment means that a thread of execution is… … Wikipedia
furca — n.; pl. cae [L. furca, fork] 1. Any forked process. 2. (ARTHROPODA: Crustacea) The caudal furca; cercopod. 3. (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) a. The cercopods; the forked sternal process arising from the thoracic sternum of pterygote insects formed by the… … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
furcula — noun (plural furculae) Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, forked prop, diminutive of furca Date: 1859 a forked process or part: as a. wishbone b. the forked leaping appendage arising from the fourth abdominal segment of a springtail … New Collegiate Dictionary
Furcula — Fur cu*la, n. [L., a forked prop, dim. of furca a fork.] (Anat.) A forked process; the wishbone or furculum. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
furcula — noun a) A forked process or structure, generally two pronged. b) The forked bone formed by the fusion of the clavicles in birds, the wishbone or merrythought … Wiktionary
MIMEDefang — Infobox Software name = MIMEDefang caption = collapsible = author = developer = released = latest release version = latest release date = latest preview version = latest preview date = frequently updated = programming language = C, Perl operating … Wikipedia
antefurca — n.; pl. furcae [L. ante, before; furca, fork] (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) The internal chitinous forked process projecting into the thoracic cavity from the anterior thoracic segment … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
uropod — A paired biramous appendage attached to the sixth abdominal somite in all but the true crabs and usually combining with the telson to form a tail fan [Chace and Hobbs, 1969]. An appendage of the last (6th) abdominal segment [Warner, 1977].… … Crustacea glossary
os|me|te|ri|um — «OZ muh TIHR ee uhm, OS », noun, plural te|ri|a « TIHR ee uh». a forked process of the first thoracic segment of certain butterfly larvae, noted for the disagreeable odor it emits. ╂[< New Latin osmeterium < Greek osm smell] … Useful english dictionary
