Canus: see canescent.
Capillaceous: capilla or hair-like.
Capillaris: a very slender, hair-like tube.
Capillary: long and slender like a hair: antennae in which the joints are long, slender and loosely articulated.
Capillate -us: clothed with long slender hair; = coryphatus.
Capillii: hairs of the head that form a cap as in certain Trichoptera and Tineid Lepidoptera.
Capillitium: the hood-like collar in some Noctuid moths, e.g. Cucullia: see cucullus.
Capitate: with a head: that type of clavate antenna in which the club is abruptly enlarged at tip and forms a spherical mass.
Capitulum: a small head: the enlarged tip of an antenna: the little knob at tip of halteres in Diptera: the labella or lapping tip of the mouth of certain flies.
Capricorn beetle: a Cerambycid or long horned beetle.
Caprification: is that method or process through which the Smyrna figs are fertilized by Blastophaga throughthe medium of wild, inedible or "caprifigs."
Capsular: in the form of a capsule or little cup-like container.
Caput: the head with all its appendages.
Capylus: a hump on the Tupper side of the segments of many larva.
Carabidoid: applied to the second stage of a meloid larva, when it resembles that of a Carabid.
Carbonarius: coal black.
Cardia: the gizzard; q.v.: also applied to the heart.
Cardiac: belonging or relating to the heart.
Cardiac valvule: see oesophageal valve.
Cardinal cell: Odonata; see triangle.
Cardioblasts: a string or row of cells in the embryo giving rise to the heart or dorsal vessel.
Cardio-coelom: that part of the coelom that forms the pericardium.
Cardio-coelomic: applied to the venous openings from the heart to the body cavity.
Cardo, pl. Cardines: the hinge or basal sclerite of the maxilla by means of which it is jointed to the head.
Carina -ae: an elevated ridge or keel, not necessarily high or acute. Carinate: a surface having carinae.
Carinula -ae: a little carina or keel-like ridge; specifically, the longitudinal elevation on the middle of snout in Rhynchophora.
Carinulate: a surface with small and rather numerous carinae.
Cariose -ous: corroded; appearing as if worm-eaten.
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