(n.) A small decorative fold or flap, esp, of lace or muslin, in a garment or headdress.
(v. t.) To decorate with, or as with, a lappet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The distal fibular physis also begins as a transverse structure that becomes undulated and has extensive peripheral lappet formation.
(2) However, as the tibia enlarges diametrically and the epiphyseal ossification center matures, the physis becomes increasingly undulated, with peripheral lappet formation.
(3) In D. dendriticum, however, no secreted layer exists between the inner bothrium surface and the host intestinal villi and the inner bothrium surface of this species appears to be lobed or lappet formed.
(4) C. eberhardi is a small species with primitive characters (cephalic papillae arranged in square, body not flattened dorso-ventrally and without internal lateral cuticular thickenings, tail with well developed median point and two tiny lateral lappets, one pair of distinctly precloacal papillae).
(5) The development of O. petersi, O. belemensis and O. spinosa is similar to that of O. bacillaris: the larvae are in the adipose tissue of various mosquitoes; the infective stages are characterized by the longitudinal salient ridges of the cuticule, the long tail ended by two lappets, the well-developed glandular oesophagus; the female genital anlage lies in the anterior half part of the body, but is not very far from the median line.
(6) The animal cargo, worth $113,715, reportedly included: two lappet-faced vultures, two serval cats, two impalas, two black verreaux’s eagles, three elands, four giraffes, four ground hornbill, five spring hares, six oryx, seven kori bustard, 10 dik-dik, 20 Grant’s gazelle, 68 Thomson’s gazelle, and a secretary bird.
(7) sp., fourth species of the genus, is frequent and associated with the morphologically similar species, D. gracile (Rud., 1809); D. robini differs from D. gracile by structure of caudal lappets of female, vagina, microfilaria and area rugosa.
(8) n. The new genus is differentiated from Mathevotaenia, Markewitchitaenia and Atriotaenia by being craspedote, possessing a large seminal receptacle, the presence of a hermaphroditic canal leading into the genital atrium, and by having two opposable, muscular lappets on the anterior margin of each sucker.
(9) Parasitic third-stage larvae had the 6 internal labial papillae on small elevations without lappets around a small mouth; large, oval amphidial pits; ribbonlike lateral alae for most of their length, but with the anterior 30-40 microns of the alae cordlike; and phasmidial apertures on the body cuticle ventral to the lateral alae.
(10) Infective larvae (cuticle of the second stage) had the 6 internal labial papillae on prominent bluntly rectangular lappets in a star-shaped arrangement around a large triradiate mouth, small triangular or round amphidial pits, flattened ribbonlike lateral alae, and phasmidial apertures opening on the ventral surface of the lateral alae.
Tappet
Definition:
(n.) A lever or projection moved by some other piece, as a cam, or intended to tap or touch something else, with a view to produce change or regulate motion.