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The Little Caddice Flies: Glossary

GLOSSARY Abdomen (ab-dō'-men). The lower part of an animal's body. The part behind the thorax in insects.

Adult (a-dult'). (L. adultus=grown up.) Grown to full size and strength.

Anchor (ang'-kor). (Gr. = a hook.) Anchors are used to fasten ships by a line to the bottom of the sea. Applied to anything that holds a movable body fast in one place.

Antenna; pl. Antennae (an-ten'-nee).

The feeler in front of the insect's head with which it hears and smells as well as feels.

Aphis (a'-fis) (pl. Aphides (af'-i- Aphid (af'-id) } dēz).

The plant louse, of which there are a great many kinds.

Apparatus (ap-a-rā-tus). Tools or machinery used in working or in making things.

Aquarium (a-kwā'-ri-um). (L. aquarium = watering-place for cattle.) A vessel of water for keeping water plants or water animals.

Attract (at-trakt'). (L. attractus = draw to.) To draw toward.

Audubon (aw'-do-bon), John James.

A very famous student of birds and their ways. In his great book, "The Birds of America," which was published in 1827, there are many large colored drawings made by himself.

Beech-nuts. Small, three-cornered nuts that grow on beech trees, and that are very sweet and good.

Breeding-place. The place where young animals are born.

Brood. A family of young animals.

Caddice, or Caddis, fly (kad'-is flī).

Sometimes called "case fly," from the case or shell which the larva makes about itself; "caddice" is another way of saying "case."

Camera (kam'-e-rä). An instrument for taking photographs.

Cannibal (kan'-i-bal). A human being who eats human flesh.

Any animal that eats others of its own kind.

Cargo (kar'-go). The goods or merchandise or whatever is carried in a ship.

Carnivorous (kar-niv'-ō-rus). (L.carnivorus=flesh-eating.) Applied to animals that feed on flesh, and plants that feed on insects.

Cast. The cast-off skin of an insect that keeps the form of the insect's body.

GLOSSARY Characteristic (kar-ak-te-ris'-tik). Emaciated (e-ma'-shi-at-ed). (L. ema- Showing the peculiar qualities of a person or thing.