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galea

/gey-lee-uh/US // ˈgeɪ li ə //UK // (ˈɡeɪlɪə) //

伽利略,加利福尼亚州,加利福尼亚

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ga·le·ae [gey-lee-ee]. /ˈgeɪ liˌi/.

    • : Botany. a part of the calyx or corolla having the form of a helmet, as the upper lip of the corolla of the monkshood.
    • : Anatomy. any of several helmet-shaped structures.

Examples

  • Corolla with the upper lip (galea) little longer and usually much narrower than the inflated 1–3-saccate lower one.

  • It is the Dolium galea, good friends, and we could tell you six other kinds that are suspected of this meanness.

  • Cephalis not distinctly separated from the galea, as the ring in the uppermost part of the shell-wall becomes obliterated.

  • Galea hemispherical, with a short conical horn, about as large as the roundish cephalis and half as large as the ovate thorax.

  • Two anterior (or pectoral) tubes arise from the two frontal corners of the galea basis, and diverge forwards to right and left.