"leg" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The thoracic legs are quite long, and the larva bears great resemblance to the larvae of Trichoptera.
- In general, however, they have three pairs of thoracic legs, each ending in two claws.
- As mentioned, some have prolegs as well as "true" thoracic legs.
- They have long thoracic legs with paired claws.
- The thoracic legs are undeveloped or rudimentary, the abdomen long, slender, and often without appendages.
- The thoracic legs are reduced, but always present and they locomote by rolling waves rather than walking with individual prolegs.
- However, the main functions of the thoracic legs are respiration and carrying food forward to the mouth.
- This contrasts with the related Isopoda, which have a single kind of thoracic leg.
- A few of the defining characteristics of the class Insecta are three pairs of thoracic legs.
- This is due to the long thoracic legs "and caudal appendages which are ever nervously twisting about".
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