• Dictionary Of Entomology

Insects dominate today's biosphere. Because of their number and diversity, they are by far the most important living beings on this earth. Nearly one million. PDF Download A Dictionary Of Entomology Books For free written by A. Leftwich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with categories.

Word History Scientists who study insects (there are close to a million that can be studied!) are called entomologists. Why are they not called 'insectologists'?

Dictionary Of Entomology

Well, in a way they are. The word insect comes from the Latin word insectum, meaning 'cut up or divided into segments.' (The plural of insectum, namely insecta, is used by scientists as the name of the taxonomic class that insects belong to.) This Latin word was created in order to translate the Greek word for 'insect,' which is entomon. This Greek word also literally means 'cut up or divided into segments,' and it is the source of the word entomology.

The Greeks had coined this term for insects because of the clear division of insect bodies into three segments, now called the head, thorax, and abdomen. You don't know what it is to want spiritual tobacco--bad emendations of old texts, or small items about a variety of Aphis Brassicae, with the well-known signature of Philomicron, for the `Twaddler's Magazine;' or a learned treatise on the entomology of the Pentateuch, including all the insects not mentioned, but probably met with by the Israelites in their passage through the desert; with a monograph on the Ant, as treated by Solomon, showing the harmony of the Book of Proverbs with the results of modern research.