cornicular

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English

Adjective

cornicular (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Being or relating to a horn angle.
  2. (biology, rare) Of or pertaining to cornicles.
    • 1981, Murray S. Blum, Chemical Defenses of Arthropods, page 11:
      The cornicular secretions of the aphids Myzus persicae and Acyrthosiphon Pisum were analyzed by Strong (1967) and shown to consist almost exclusively of triglycerides.
    • 2012, Matthew L. Buffington, “Description of Nanocthulhu lovecrafti, a Preternatural New Genus and Species of Trichoplastini (Figitidae: Eucoilinae)”, in Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, volume 114, page 6:
      Nanocthulhu possesses a cornicular knob on the corniculum, distinguishing this genus from Stentorceps, which has a circular or ovoid corniculum
    • 2014, Cecile Le Lann et al., “Thermal change alters the outcome of behavioural interactions between antagonistic partners”, in Ecological Entomology, volume 39, →DOI:
      The cornicular secretions act in two ways: they can trap the parasitoid as well as function as alarm pheromones that alert their nearby conspecific individuals. The following behaviours of the aphids were recorded: cornicular secretions (0, 1 side or 2 sides).

Noun

cornicular (plural corniculars)

  1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) A secretary or clerk.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cornicular”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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