predacious fungi

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• lasso — n. [L. laqueus, snare, noose] 1. (CNIDARIA) Fibrils, thought to be contractile, extending down the stalk of a cnidoblast securing the nematocyst. 2. (NEMATA) Circular traps; a threecelled ring of predacious fungi that constrict around a nematode …   Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

• nemin — n. [Gr. nema, thread] (NEMATA) An unknown or unidentified endogenous substance in nematodes that causes trap formation by predacious fungi …   Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

• Histeridae — Hister metallicus Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum …   Wikipedia

• coleopteran — /koh lee op teuhr euhn, kol ee /, adj. 1. belonging or pertaining to the order Coleoptera. n. 2. a beetle. [1840 50; COLEOPTER(A) + AN] * * * ▪ insect Introduction   any member of the insect order Coleoptera, consisting of the beetles and weevils …   Universalium

• dipteran — /dip teuhr euhn/, adj. 1. dipterous (def. 1). n. 2. a dipterous insect. [1835 45; DIPTER(A) + AN] * * * Any member of the more than 85,000 species in the insect order Diptera (the two winged, or true, flies), characterized by the use of only one… …   Universalium

• heteropteran — ▪ insect order Introduction   any member of the insect order Heteroptera, which comprises the so called true bugs. (Some authorities use the name Hemiptera; others consider both the heteropterans and the homopterans to be suborders of the… …   Universalium

• insect — insectival /in sek tuy veuhl/, adj. /in sekt/, n. 1. any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two… …   Universalium