testaceous

/te-stey-shuhs/US // tɛˈsteɪ ʃəs //UK // (tɛˈsteɪʃəs) //

带皮的,胎生的,胎生,胎记

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : of, relating to, or derived from shells.
- : having a test or shell-like covering.
- : of a brick-red, brownish-red, or brownish-yellow color.

Leptura rubra of Linn, with red elytra, is the female of his L. testacea, in which they are testaceous.
Thus, in the order Coleoptera, the elytra of the male of Rhagium meridianum F. are testaceous, and those of the female black.
And therefore such as have no distinction of sex, engender not at all, as Aristotle conceives of Eels, and testaceous animals.
The Limax, or common garden slug, which has a testaceous shield beneath its mantle, is an instance of this.
A genus consisting of small testaceous appendages fixed on the posterior extremity of a species of slug.