Definitionn. someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables
Last update: July 17, 2015
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I heard about it on the scanner and we came over here as fast as we could. [Please select]
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Cephalotheca: the united head and thorax of arachnids and crustacea {Scanner's comment: nowadays this term is used little if at all. [Please select]
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Chitinous: composed of chitine {Scanner's comment: sic} or like it in texture: as a color term is amber yellow. [Please select]
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{Scanner's note: This book is about a century old at the time of scanning. [Please select]
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{Scanner's note: color plate may be excluded, partly because it is in poor condition. [Please select]
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{Scanner's note: this is no longer a valid usage for the word "ocelli". [Please select]
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{Scanner's comment: Ethology nowadays refers to studies in animal behaviour, not directly to ecology. [Please select]
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{Scanner's comment: The sign for Venus being an orthogonal cross or plus sign hanging vertically below a circle. [Please select]
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{Scanner's comment: nowadays applied to far more orders, generally to those that undergo a marked metamorphosis, but without a pupal stage. [Please select]
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{Scanner's comment: These four groups are now placed in totally separate orders, and not families as these names imply} Corrugated: wrinkled; with alternate ridges and channels. [Please select]
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{Scanner's comment: Roaches are now classed as Dictyoptera, and Orthoptera are now classed as distinct from Dictyoptera} Didactyle -us: two-toed: with two tarsi of equal length. [Please select]
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