nflect: crowded; clustered; opposed to sparse.
Confluent: running together; as of two macula when united in one
outline.
Confused: a marking with indefinite outlines: a running together as of
lines and spots without definite pattern.
Congener: a species belonging to the same genus.
Congeneric: applied to a species agreeing in all characters of generic
value with others compared with it.
Congested: heaped together; crowded: distended.
Conglobate: gathered together in a ball or sphere.
Conglobate gland: a glandular appendage of male sexual organs in
Orthoptera, opening upon one of the external structures.
Conglomerate: congregated; massed together.
Conic -al: cylindrical, with a flat base, tapering to a point.
Conico-acuminate: in the form of a long, pointed cone.
Coniferous: a surface which bears cone-like processes.
Conjugate: to bring together in pairs: consisting of a single pair.
Conjugation: the union of pairs; usually applied to the merging of the
male and female elements.
Conjunctiva: the membrane uniting the abdominal sclerites.
Conjunctivus: a mandibular sclerite between the molar and basalis.
Conjunctura: the articulation of a wing to the thorax.
Connate: united at base, or along the whole length.
Connexivum: the prominent abdominal margin of Het., at junction of
dorsal and ventral plates: also used like pulmonarium, q.v.
Connivent: converging: approaching together: wings so folded in
repose that they unite perfectly at their corresponding margins.
Consperse: irregularly dotted or sprinkled.
Conspicuous: striking: easily seen at a glance.
Conspurcatus: confusedly sprinkled with discolored or dark spots.
Constituent: a part or element of a whole.
Constricted: drawn in: narrowed medially and dilated toward the
extremities.
Contiguous: so near together as to touch.
Contorted: twisted: obliquely incumbent upon each other.
Contour: the outline or periphery.
Contract -ed: to draw or drawn together: to reduce, or reduced in size
by contraction.
Contractile: that which may be drawn together or contracted or which
has the power of contracting.
Contrasting: appearing in sharp relief or contrast; as one color or
marking against another.
Converging: approaching each other toward the tip.
Convergence: the approaching or drawing together at tips.
Convex: the outer curved surface of a segment of a sphere; opposed
to concave: convex veins are those which o
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