Bill much longer than the head, with its outline scarcely curved; legs very long, tibiae bare to a great extent; feathers of the lower fore neck very long and tapering.
Keyes reports a case of a boy five years of age, with nodes on tibiae and other signs of inherited syphilis, who had two attacks of paraplegia.
Tibiae Sarranae, from Sarra, the old Latin name for Tyre, were a special form of tibiae pares.
Four kinds of flutes are mentioned as used by him: tibiae pares, impares, sarranae, and duae dextrae (see note p.
The purple spots on the tibiae of this insect are very noticeable, and resemble small drums in structure, hence they are regarded by Mr. A.
The front and middle legs are immediately afterwards extracted, the long femora and tibiae easily passing the sharp angles in the exuvia, owing to their complete flexibility.
The knee-joints approach one another; the femora slope downwards and inwards towards the knee-joints; the tibiae become straight; and the sole of the foot faces almost directly downwards.
When the thighs of the hind-legs converge and the tibiae diverge so as to form an angle which is armed with spines.
Ears: organs of hearing, as on the first tibiae or on the first abdominal segment of some Trichoptera.
Corbicula -um: a concave, smooth space, edged by a fringe of hairs arising from the margins of the posterior tibiae in bees, forming the pollen basket its function is to hold the collected pollen in place.
After a great deal of futile shaking, the tibiaeare attacked.
For a long time the body is repeatedly shaken, but in vain; the tibiae or tarsi, unduly hard, refuse to yield to the patient saw.
Many of them, amongst the rest Cercopis spumaria, have the extremity of the above tibiaearmed with a coronet of spines; these are of great use in pushing them off when the legs are unbended.
Their posterior tibiae also want the corbicula and pecten that distinguish the individuals of the other sex, and their posterior plantae have no auricle.
The posteriortibiae of some of this last division (Lygaeus phyllopus, foliaceus, &c.
In addition to these well-marked brushes, the distal ends of the tibiae of the fore and middle legs bear many stiff hairs, which function as pollen collectors, and the distal tarsal joints of all legs bear similar structures.
First anal vein short, second anal suddenly flexed upwards; hind tibiae each with one or two strong setae on the extensor surface.
Fore tibiae each with three long spines on the ventral side.
Body covered with metallic scales; front of female of normal width; front and middle tibiae greatly dilated.
Middle tibiaewith spongy fossa; fore tibiae convex above; neck with a small tubercle on each side.
Tibiae not dilated as in "f"; spongy fossa elongate; metapleural sulci close to the margin.
Body oblong; margin with quadrangular cells; anterior tibiae and metatarsi each about three times as long as broad.
Underside of the scutellum more or less sparsely covered with fine hairs; anal vein nearly always reaches the hind margin of the wing; extensor surface of the hind tibiae with a number of stout setae; squamae often small and equal.
Middle tibiae without spongy fossa, head long, no lateral tubercle on neck.
Apical portion of anterior tibiae angularly dilated beneath, the spongy fossa being preceded by a small prominence.
Venezuela has bare genae, oral setae not ascending; tibiae villose; claws short in both sexes; Sarconesia Bigot with the species S.
Some persons conjecture, that the Tibiae pares were a set of two or more pipes of the same pitch in the musical scale, and Impares such as did not agree in pitch(603).
It is only farther known, that the Tibiae Serranae belonged to the class called Pares, and the Phrygiae, to which they were opposed, to that styled Impares.
There is still more difficulty with regard to the "Tibiae pares et impares.
Scaliger thinks, that the "Tibiae dextrae et sinistrae" were formed by cutting the reed into two parts: that portion which was next to the root making the left, and that next to the top the right flute.
Girault Legs wholly concolorous except the knees and tips of tibiae narrowly and the tarsi; as in the preceding but stylus and ovipositor subequal.
Middle legs except coxae, all knees narrowly, tips of tibiae and the tarsi reddish brown.
Legs concolorous except knees, tips oftibiae and the tarsi.
In the male the body is longer and narrower than in the female and longer than the male trivittata, and the tibiae of the second legs are a little thickened and curved as in trivittata.
The tibiae of the first and second legs are bright orange color, and the rest, like the cephalothorax, pale yellow.
When still it lies close to a stone, with the tibiae drawn up over the back.
In the males the femora and the sides of the thorax are much darker brown, and the tibiae of the front pair dark and thickly covered with hairs.
The tibiae of the first and second legs are a little thickened in the middle and have four pairs of spines on the under side, and the metatarsus of the same legs eight pairs.
The tibiaeof the second legs are thickened, and the spines on the inner side short and stout.
The tibiae of the second legs are not thickened or modified in shape as they are in the male insularis.
The ends of the front tibiae are dark brown and have long brown hairs on the inner and upper side.
Differences of this kind also occur in the calcaria or spurs that arm the apex of the tibiae of a large number of insects.
Then follow the legs, the tibiaeforming an angle with the thigh, and the case of the anterior pair being innermost, and representing the breast-bone in the pupa.
The tibiae of the males of some Lepidoptera are remarkable in this respect.
In most Petalocerous beetles the tibiae are set with scattered bristles, and sometimes the thighs.
Legs eight or their representatives: tibiae mostly consisting of two joints.
Amongst the insects with more than six legs, most commonly the tibiaehave no spurs; but in the Araneidae each is armed with two, a circumstance which also distinguishes the corresponding joint of the pedipalpi.
They abound in the Lepidoptera: one of the most extraordinary is that certain male butterflies have their fore-legs more or less atrophied, with the tibiae and tarsi reduced to mere rudimentary knobs.
Legs pale yellowish, femora and coxae more whitish, tibiae and patellae I and IV tipped with black.
The legs are pale with spots similar to those on the cephalothorax, many of which have a bristle or spine; no marks on the tarsi, buttibiae and metatarsis are twice banded with reddish.
Legs long and slender, first and fourth pair about equal, all with stout spines on femora; tibiae and metatarsi I and II each with two pairs of very long spines, none at tips.
Posterior tibiae and tarsi nearly as in the second pair.
Legs and underside ferruginous, bases of abdominal segments green, as are the tips of the femora and all the tarsi: front edge of tibiae of fore-legs without teeth, hind tibiae moderate.
Second pair with the tibiae about two-thirds as long as the tarsi, with numerous minute spines along their sides and two stout ones at the apex; joints of the tarsi having about the same relative proportions as in the anterior pair.
The rest of the skeleton was scattered, the lower jaw being in the northwest corner of the grave with the femora, tibiaeand fibulae.
The legs were flexed so that the femora lay at right angles or to the southeast of the pelvis, and the tibiae and fibulae lay parallel to them.
When we come to examine the other legs we find that the inner surface of their tibiae and tarsi, i.
The bulk of the dissociated bone consisted of tibiae or femora.
In some instances sections of both femora and tibiae occurred in articulated position; in others, just a pair of tibiae or femora, or a single femur or tibia were left.
In the second burial most of the two tibiae and parts of both femora remained, their position strongly suggesting flexure.
Rostrum unshortened (orbit to anterior tip of nasals about one-third greatest length of skull); dorsal surface of tibiae nearly naked 3 2'.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tibiae" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
