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Coarctate
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
Pressed together; closely connected; -- applied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction. Coarctate pupa (Zoöl.), a pupa closely covered by the old larval skin, as in most Diptera.