Tryptic: acting like tripsin, the proteolytic ferment of the pancreatic fluid.
Tube: a slender, hollow, cylindrical body: specifically applied to the anal siphon or respiratory tube of mosquito larvae.
Tubercle: a little solid pimple or small chitinous button: really a ring, which may or may not give rise to a seta.
Tubercles: on the thoracic and abdominal segments of caterpillars are anterior trapezoidal; posterior trapezoidal; lateral; posterior stigmatal; anterior stigmatal; sub-primary subventral; pedal and adventral: all of which see.
Tubercula: an elevated triangular process at the anterior angle of the thorax specifically in Hymenoptera.
Tuberculate -ose: formed like a tubercle: a surface covered with tubercles.
Tubercule -ulum: a small tubercle.
Tuberculiform: shaped like a pimple or tubercle.
Tuberculose -ous: covered or set with tubercles.
Tubulifera: Hymenoptera, in which the terminal segments of abdomen are retracted, but may be extended, tube-like: Thysanoptera in which there is no ovipositor and the terminal segments of abdomen are tubular.
Tubulous -ose: formed like a tube: fistulous.
Tubulus: the slender, flexible abdominal segments forming the ovipositor in Diptera.
Tubus: a term used to designate the corneous base of a ligula: the sheath of the tongue.
Tumescence: a swelling or tumid enlargement: a puffed up area.
Tumescent: a little swollen or puffed up.
Tumid: swollen; enlarged; puffed up.
Tunica intima: the inner layer of the silk glands: an inner lining or membrane.
Tunica propria: a layer of epithelial cells and connective tissue lining the interior of the hind gut: the outer layer of the silk glands: a covering or investing membrane.
Tunicate: composed of concentric layers, enveloping one another: said of antennae when each successive joint is buried in the preceding funnel-shaped one.
Turbinate: top-shaped; nearly conical: differs from pyriform in being shorter and more suddenly attenuated at base: applied to an eye = pillared eye; q.v.
Turgid: swollen.
Turritus: towering: a surface rising cone-like.
Tylo: = tylus; q.v.
Tylus: the anterior central lobe of the head in Hemiptera.
Tympana: the ears in Orthoptera.
Tympanal: applied to organs covered with a tympanum or stretched membrane supposed to function as ears.
Tympanic spiracle: in Diptera, the thoracic spiracle at base of wing.
Tympanules: small openings covered by a membrane, having otoliths and serving as ears.
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