Its food is smallcrustaceous animals, and it is said to be particularly partial to feeding on the fry of the Blennies.
Leaving the family of crustaceous Florideæ, we shall now pass to those of softer consistence, although all the marine Algæ contain a considerable quantity of calcareous matter.
It consists of a single fan-shaped crustaceous layer of cells, closely investing the body to which it is attached; its fructification is unknown.
An order of insects (Beetles) which have four wings, the upper pair being crustaceous and forming a shield.
The wing-sheaths, or upper crustaceous membranes, which form the superior wings in the tribe of beetles.
He also states that in divers localities he found a mass composed of corals, shells, andcrustaceous bodies of different species, confusedly blended with earth, sand, and gravel.
Lobsters and crabs, although both have crustaceous coverings, are very unlike; and again, there are many species of both lobsters and crabs.
Animals having shells differ from those having a cartilaginous or those having a crustaceous covering, and are placed in different groups.
They are divided by naturalists into crustaceous and testaceous: both of which, being totally unlike fishes in appearance, seem to invert the order of nature.
Crustaceous fishes, such as the Crab and Lobster, have shells resembling a firm crust, and in some measure capable of yielding to pressure or strength.
Along the greater part of its course this membrane has already assumed a half-crustaceous consistence, and is just the preparatory process to the old shell being thrown off by the animal.
In estuaries it feeds on crustaceous and molluscous animals and small fish, which it obtains by diving.
Hence it must find its food near the surface; and this is supposed to consist of the small crustaceous animals which are so abundant in the Arctic waters.
Gulls are, moreover, of material service, for they perform for the surface of the sea the same office which crustaceous animals do for its depths.
All the softer parts had been apparently devoured by fishes and crustaceous animals, and nothing was left but the unmistakable parrot-like beaks.
Wall of the sporangium a thin membrane with an outer layer composed of minute stellate crystals, or of minute roundish granules of lime; these either lie singly upon the surface, or are compacted into a crustaceous coat.
The wall with a white crustaceous layer of lime, which soon ruptures around the edges, allowing the upper part to break in pieces and fall away; the inner membrane cinereous, rupturing irregularly.
This genus is easily recognized by the smooth crustaceous layer of lime on the outer surface of the sporangium; in many cases this easily shells off or breaks away.
The outer crustaceous layer of lime on the wall crumbles and falls away, as in some species of Diderma.
A name for certain crustaceous marine alg\'91 which secrete carbonate of lime on their surface, and were formerly thought to be of animal nature.
The state or quality of being crustaceous or having a crustlike shell.
Berry crowned with the shrivelled remains of the calyx, the surface of the numerous seeds swelling into a gelatinous outer coat investing a crustaceous one.
Seeds roundish, with a smooth and shining crustaceous testa and copious albumen.
Fruit 2- (rarely 3-) celled; the crustaceous carpels into which it splits all closed and indehiscent.
Fruit a kind of dry drupe, with a crustaceous or bony nut-shell, containing a large 4-lobed orthotropous seed.
Drupe globular; the thin crustaceous putamen hollowed out like a cup on one side.
Seeds anatropous, large, with a crustaceous seed-coat, and a minute embryo at the base of the ruminated albumen.
The shells of the crustaceous tribe are beautifully designed and coloured, yet it is to be remarked that neither land-snails nor the shells of crustacea of fresh water, are adorned with such bright colours as those of the sea.
Orthopterous insects may perhaps one day be discovered analogous to the two other crustaceous orders, the Decapods and Branchiopods; but at present I know of none of that description.
I trust this will appear to you the reverse of dubious in a progress through the Crustaceous Orders.
Thus in the class of quadrupeds, and in the most constant characteristic of these animals, that of being covered with hairs, Nature varies in bringing them near the three different classes of birds, fishes, and the crustaceous kinds.
This crustaceous covering is only a surface independent of the interior parts of the animal's body, his bones, and other organs, being composed like those of other quadrupeds.
Fruit a drupe, with as many indehiscent bony orcrustaceous 1-seeded nutlets as carpels; sarcocarp thin and fleshy.
Fruit globose, with thin usually dry flesh and a 1-seeded stone with a usually crustaceous or bony shell.
Fruit mostly immersed in the thickened succulent receptacle, obovoid or reniform; flesh thin, mucilaginous; nutlet with a flat crustaceous minutely tuberculate shell.
Fruit nearly inclosed in the enlarged disk of the flower, the stone crustaceous or chartaceous.
At the first charge, the fly rebounded from the crustaceous integument of its adversary, having done no more damage than if a child were to apply its hand to the well-mailed body of a cuirassier.
An interstice or small space, as between the cracks of the surface in certain crustaceous lichens; or as between the fibers composing organs or vessels that interlace; or as between the nervures of an insect's wing.
Without claws on the feet (of crustaceous animals).
It is to the stomach of this species that I am most indebted for many of the rarer of the testaceous and crustaceous specimens which I possess.
It is to the stomach of this species,” says Edward, “that I am most indebted for many of the rarest of the testaceous and crustaceous specimens that I possess.
They therefore unite the character of cartilaginous fishes with a character peculiar to themselves, and in which we see pretty clear vestiges of the pre- existent crustaceous form.
The polypi vaginati, in the crustaceous covering of the living mass, and their more or less articulated structure, represent the annulosa.
On no account whatever use warm water in cleaning crustaceous animals, as it is certain to change their colors.
Mr. Bullock recommended that Crabs and all other crustaceous animals should be immersed in corrosive sublimate and water for an hour previous to their being put into attitudes.
A name for certain crustaceous marine algæ which secrete carbonate of lime on their surface, and were formerly thought to be of animal nature.
They are as pugnacious and spiteful as any of the crustaceous class; and when taken, or when they fall and jar themselves considerably, utter a chirping noise, which is evidently an angry expression.
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