Complicant: when one elytron extends over the other and partially covers it.
Complicate: longitudinally laid in folds: intricate as opposed to simple.
Component: one part of a combined whole.
Compound: made up of many similar or dissimilar parts.
Compressed: flattened laterally.
Concatenate: linked together in a chain-like series.
Concave: hollowed out; the interior of a sphere as opposed to the outer or convex surface: concave veins are those that occupy the bottoms of troughs or grooves on the upper surface of a wing; see convex veins.
Concavo-convex: hollowed out or concave on one surface, rounded or convex on the other; like a small segment of a hollow sphere.
Concentrated: gathered together at one point; intensified or strengthened by evaporation.
Conchate: applied to the shell-like inflation of the auricle in the cephalic tibia of Orthoptera.
Concinne: neat; fine.
Concolorous: of the same general color.
Concretion: a massing together of parts or particles.
Concurrent: applied to a vein which arises separately, runs into another and does-not again separate.
Conduplicate: doubled or folded together.
Condyle: a process which articulates the base of the mandible to the head: in general any process by means of which an appendage is articulated into a pan or cavity.
Confertim: closely clustered or crowded.
Conflect: crowded; clustered; opposed to sparse.
Confluent: running together; as of two macula when united in one outline.
Confused: a marking with indefinite outlines: a running together as of lines and spots without definite pattern.
Congener: a species belonging to the same genus.
Congeneric: applied to a species agreeing in all characters of generic value with others compared with it.
Congested: heaped together; crowded: distended.
Conglobate: gathered together in a ball or sphere.
Conglobate gland: a glandular appendage of male sexual organs in Orthoptera, opening upon one of the external structures.
Conglomerate: congregated; massed together.
Conic -al: cylindrical, with a flat base, tapering to a point.
Conico-acuminate: in the form of a long, pointed cone.
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