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Congested: heaped together; crowded: distended.
Conglobate: gathered together in a ball or sphere.
Conglobate gland: a glandular appendage of male s.e.xual organs in Orthoptera, opening upon one of the external structures.
Conglomerate: congregated; ma.s.sed together.
Conic -al: cylindrical, with a flat base, tapering to a point.
Conico-ac.u.minate: in the form of a long, pointed cone.
Coniferous: a surface which bears cone-like processes.
Conjugate: to bring together in pairs: consisting of a single pair.
Conjugation: the union of pairs; usually applied to the merging of the male and female elements.
Conjunctiva: the membrane uniting the abdominal sclerites.
Conjunctivus: a mandibular sclerite between the molar and basalis.
Conjunctura: the articulation of a wing to the thorax.
Connate: united at base, or along the whole length.
Connexivum: the prominent abdominal margin of Het., at junction of dorsal and ventral plates: also used like pulmonarium, q.v.
Connivent: converging: approaching together: wings so folded in repose that they unite perfectly at their corresponding margins.
Consperse: irregularly dotted or sprinkled.
Conspicuous: striking: easily seen at a glance.
Conspurcatus: confusedly sprinkled with discolored or dark spots.
Const.i.tuent: a part or element of a whole.
Constricted: drawn in: narrowed medially and dilated toward the extremities.
Contiguous: so near together as to touch.
Contorted: twisted: obliquely inc.u.mbent upon each other.
Contour: the outline or periphery.
Contract -ed: to draw or drawn together: to reduce, or reduced in size by contraction.
Contractile: that which may be drawn together or contracted or which has the power of contracting.
Contrasting: appearing in sharp relief or contrast; as one color or marking against another.
Converging: approaching each other toward the tip.
Convergence: the approaching or drawing together at tips.
Convex: the outer curved surface of a segment of a sphere; opposed to concave: convex veins are those which occupy the summits of ridges on the upper surface of - wing; see concave veins.
Convolute: rolled or twisted spirally: also applied to wings when they are wrapped around the body.
Coprophagus: feeding on excrement or on decaying vegetable matter of an excrement.i.tious character.
Copula, Copulation: the act of s.e.xual union.
Copulate: to unite in s.e.xual intercourse.
Copulation chamber: a chamber or cell excavated by certain Scolytid beetles in their burrows, in which copulation takes place: = rammel-kammer.
Coralline: a pale pinkish red [salmon].
Corbel: an ovate area at the distal end of the tibia in Coleoptera, surrounded by a fringe of minute bristles; when the articular cavity is on the side, above the tip, the corbel is closed; when the cavity is at the extreme tip, the corbel is open.
Corbicula -um: a concave, smooth s.p.a.ce, edged by a fringe of hairs arising from the margins of the posterior tibiae in bees, forming the pollen basket its function is to hold the collected pollen in place.
Corbiculate: having corbicula.
Cordate: heart-shaped; triangular, with the corners of the base rounded: not necessarily emarginate at the middle of base.
Cordiform: = cordate.
Coriaceo-reticulate: with impressed reticulations giving a leather-like appearance.
Coriaceous: leather-like: thick, tough and somewhat rigid.
Coriarious: leather-like in sculpture or texture.
Corium: the elongate middle section of the hemelytra which extends from base to membrane below the embolium.
Cornea: the outer surface of the compound eye as a whole, and of each individual facet.
Corneal lenses: are the individual lens-like structures of which the cornea of the compound eye is composed.
Corneous: of a h.o.r.n.y or chitinous substance; resembling horn in texture.
Cornicles: the honey tubes in plant-lice: = corniculus.
Corniculi: the little h.o.r.n.y tips or pieces of the ovipositor in Orthoptera; see valves.
Corniculus -i: = cornicles; honey-tubes; q.v.
Corniform: like the horn of an ox: a long, mucronate or pointed process.