The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . akri, head.]In hot., having some flower-heads male andothers female in the same individual: appliedprincipally in the Compositce. Heterocera (het-e-rose-rii), n. pi. [NL., < , other, different, + Kipag, horn.] A subor-der of Lcpidoptcra, founded by Boisduval (18-10),containing the nocturnal lepidopters or moths:contrasted with Ilhopalocera or butterflies. Theyare so named from the diversity in the fonns of the anten-nffi, which may be setaceous, fusif
The century dictionary and cyclopedia, a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge with a new atlas of the world . akri, head.]In hot., having some flower-heads male andothers female in the same individual: appliedprincipally in the Compositce. Heterocera (het-e-rose-rii), n. pi. [NL., < , other, different, + Kipag, horn.] A subor-der of Lcpidoptcra, founded by Boisduval (18-10),containing the nocturnal lepidopters or moths:contrasted with Ilhopalocera or butterflies. Theyare so named from the diversity in the fonns of the anten-nffi, which may be setaceous, fusiform, pectinate, or plu-mose, but are seldom if ever rhopalocerous or clubbed likethose of butterflies. Leading forms of Heterocera are tilesphingids, bombycids, arctiids, noctuids. geometrids, py-ralids, tortricids, and tineids. The group corresponds tothe Linnean gtnieraSpkinx :md Pkala-na; it includes manyfamilies, .among them those grouped as rnoth. heterocerc (hete-ro-serk), a. [< Gr. erepog,other, different, 4- Kspaog, tail.] Same as het-erocercal. lieterocercal(hete-ro-serkal), a. [< heterocerc. Heterocercal Tail of Fish. + In ichth.,having an tmequally dividedtail or caudal fin. Contrasted with Imiiwccratl. heterocercality (), n. [<heterocercal + -(7i/.] Same as hetefocercy. Sci-ence, [Rare.] Heterocerci (hete-ro-sersi), n. pi [NL. (Zit-ttl, 1887), < Gr. frfpof, other, different, + «/iKof,tail.] An order of ganoid fishes, including thefamilies Pahcoiiiscidw and PlatijsoniiiUe: sameas Lijsoptcri. lieterocercy (hete-ro-sersi), n. [< heterocerc+ -y-l The state or quality of being hetero- 2813 cereal; inequality of the lobes of the caudalfin: opposed to homoccrcy. Heteroceridae (hete-ro-seri-de), n. pi. [NL.,< + A family of elavicornbeetles, typified by tlie genus Htterocerus. Thedorsal segments of the abdomen are partly membranous,the first four ventral segments connate, the tai-si 4-
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