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l elevation on the middle of snout in Rhynchophora. Carinulate: a surface with small and rather numerous carinae. Cariose -ous: corroded; appearing as if worm-eaten. Carminate -ed: mixed or tinged with carmine. Carneous -eus: flesh-colored [salmon with a little carmine]. Carnivorous: a feeder upon flesh food. Cariose -us: of a soft, fleshy substance. Carolinian faunal area: that area of the upper austral zone comprising the larger part of the Middle States (except the mountains), s. e. So. Dakota, east. Nebraska, Kansas and part of Oklahoma; nearly all of Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Maryland and Delaware; more than half of West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and New Jersey and large areas in Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan and South Ontario: extends along Atlantic Coast from near mouth of Chesapeake Bay to Southern Connecticut and sends narrow arms up the valleys of the Hudson and Connecticut. A narrow arm follows the east shore of Lake Michigan to Grand Traverse Bay. Carpus: the pterostigma of Odonata: the extremity of the radius and cubitus of the primaries: that point in the wings at which they are tratsversely folded. Cartilaginous: of the consistency of cartilage or gristle. Caruncle: a soft, naked, fleshy excrescence or protuberance. Caryophylleous: nut or clove brown [Indian red]. Castaneous: chestnut brown; bright red-brown [dragon's blood with a slight admixture of vermilion]. Castes: the various forms or kinds of matured individuals among social insects as workers, soldiers, queens, etc. Cataphracted: invested with a hard callous skin, or with scales closely united. Catch: in Collembola, = tenaculum, q.v. Catenate: with longitudinal connected elevations like links in a chain. Catenulate: like catenate; but the links are smaller. Caterpillar: the term applied to the larvae of Lepidoptera. Catervatum: by heaps. Caudal: the tail: any process resembling a tail: the pointed end of the abdomen in plant lice: any extension of the anal segment or appendage terminating the abdomen. Caudad: toward the posterior end of the body, along the median line. Caudal: pertaining to the posterior or anal extremity. Caudal setae: long, thread-like processes at the end of the abdomen in many europterous and some other insects; = anal filaments. Caudate: with tail-like extensions or processes. Caudo-cephalic: in a line from th
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