What's the difference between insect and underwing?

Insect


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta.
  • (n.) Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion.
  • (n.) Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.
  • (n.) Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.
  • (a.) Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
  • (2) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
  • (3) After treatment of larvae of instar 1 at preimago stages about 77% of the insects died.
  • (4) The presence of potential insect vectors and the occurrence of clinical signs are indications of active transmissions.
  • (5) Spectrophotometric tests for the presence of a lysozyme-like principle in the serum also revealed similar trends with a significant loss of enzyme activity in 2,4,5-T-treated insects.
  • (6) Radiation inactivation and simple target theory were employed to determine the molecular weight of an insect CNS alpha-bungarotoxin binding component in the presence and absence of a cross-linking reagent, dimethyl suberimate.
  • (7) Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies kurstaki (Btk) and subspecies berliner (Btb) both produce lepidopteran-specific larvicidal protoxins with different activities against the same insect species.
  • (8) Phyla as diverse as insects, birds, and mammals possess distinct HRAS and KRAS sequences, suggesting that these genes are essential to metazoa.
  • (9) Compounds identified as sex attractant pheromones in a number of phytophagous insects were found in a variety of host plants.
  • (10) casseliflavus from 43.5% of members of the 37 taxa of insects.
  • (11) This is the first demonstration of a 2-hydroxylated carotenoid in an insect.
  • (12) Among the most highly expressing transformed plants for each gene, the plants with the partially modified cryIA(b) gene had a 10-fold higher level of insect control protein and plants with the fully modified cryIA(b) had a 100-fold higher level of CryIA(b) protein compared with the wild-type gene.
  • (13) Expression of these two cDNAs in insect cells by recombinant baculovirus revealed that the alpha 1 subunit, after noncovalent association with the beta subunit, has the same potency as the native alpha subunit purified from the pituitary.
  • (14) We have examined the organization of the repeated and single copy DNA sequences in the genomes of two insects, the honeybee (Apis mellifera) and the housefly (Musca domestica).
  • (15) But pipeline opponents say that by moving beetles from the Nebraska sandhills and mowing miles of grass where the insects once lived, TransCanada has illegally begun construction on the project.
  • (16) The complete amino acid sequence of 147 residues was determined automatically for a major dimeric component (CTT VI) of the insect larva Chironomus thummi thummi (Diptera).
  • (17) Peptides B and C are isoforms of a 43-residue peptide which contains 6 cysteines and shows significant sequence homology to insect defensins, initially reported from dipteran insects.
  • (18) The results suggested that allergenic cross-reactivity between some fly species exists, and may extend to taxonomically unrelated insect species.
  • (19) The species studied were Triatoma infestans, Triatoma brasiliensis, Triatoma vitticeps, Triatoma pseudomaculata, Rhodnius prolixus and Panstrongylus megistus, and 34 to 348 insects were studied in each group (average, 190).
  • (20) There is evidence that they might predate on our native shrimps, on our insect larvae, possibly fish eggs.

Underwing


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the posterior wings of an insect.
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of noctuid moths belonging to Catocala and allied genera, in which the hind wings are banded with red and black or other conspicuous colors. Many of the species are called red underwing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In each study, all subjects underwent four replications (over two days) of one of the six permutations of the three experimental conditions; each condition lasted 5 min.
  • (2) In the past 6 years 26 patients underwent operation for recurrent duodenal ulcer after what was considered to be an "adequate" initial operation.
  • (3) Anesthetized sheep (n = 6) previously prepared with a lung lymph fistula underwent 2 hr of tourniquet ischemia of both lower limbs.
  • (4) He underwent a mitral and aortic valve replacement, followed by a complicated postoperative course.
  • (5) A total of 106 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) underwent clinico-laboratory comparative studies.
  • (6) Eighty four colorectal cancer patients who underwent presumably curative surgery were considered as candidates for control recurrence study.
  • (7) We reviewed the results of intraoperative monitoring of short-latency cortical evoked potentials in 81 patients who underwent surgical procedures of the cervical spine.
  • (8) All subjects underwent autopsy, and only six were found to have injuries compatible with survival.
  • (9) 78% of the recurrences were seen two years postoperatively and 27% were asymptomatic; 10% underwent radical operation, 27% palliative operation and 63% conservative treatment.
  • (10) A total of 38 patients underwent attempted percutaneous extraction of upper tract calculi with the Wolf nephroscope.
  • (11) Subjects underwent measurement of lung volumes, arterial blood gas analysis and an incremental bicycle exercise test.
  • (12) The subjects underwent a lumbar puncture and three nights of polysomnography.
  • (13) The risk of perioperative myocardial infarction and death was evaluated in 50 patients (mean age, 68 years) with severe coronary artery disease who underwent a noncardiac operation after revascularization had been achieved by successful percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.
  • (14) Sixty-one patients with Stage IB cervical carcinoma treated initially by Type III radical hysterectomy underwent water cystometry 6 or more months after surgery.
  • (15) Fifty-seven patients underwent local excision of an invasive distal rectal cancer as an initial operative procedure with curative intent.
  • (16) The 103 patients with three-vessel disease less than 50 years of age underwent operation with a 2.9% mortality.
  • (17) Fifteen SCI patients underwent a total of 224 ultrasonic bladder volume determinations and 57 urethral catheterizations.
  • (18) To evaluate the acute changes in left ventricular (LV) performance before and immediately after percutaneous aortic valvuloplasty, 25 patients underwent first-pass radionuclide angiocardiography for construction of pressure-volume loops.
  • (19) A radical rearrangement of the organism occurred gradually: initially oval in shape, the parasite became round, then elongated, flattened, and underwent cytokinesis.
  • (20) Of the patients with peripheral lung cancer lesions smaller than 2 cm who underwent surgery, 21% had peribronchial, hilar, or mediastinal lymph node metastasis.

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