repugnatorial
repugnatorial adjective: defensive or repulsive, particularly as applied to glands of certain invertebrates, with which they produce poisonous or repugnant secretions when under threat.
Adjective
repugnatorial (comparative more repugnatorial, superlative most repugnatorial)
- Defensive or repulsive, particularly as applied to glands of certain invertebrates, with which they produce poisonous or repugnant secretions when under threat.
- Certain beetles are endowed with eversible repugnatorial glands. Eleodes gigantea ... of both sexes ... when teased ... stand on their anterior and middle legs, holding the abdomen high up and spurting the contents of the glands right and left ... The liquid stains the human skin, has ... a...1909, Alpheus S. Packard, A Text-Book of Entomology, Macmillan, pages 372–373
- If one of these caterpillars is irritated, it will bend back its head and shoot out a curious forked organ from the segment just behind the head. This osmeterium, as it is called, is yellow and is forced out by muscular action and by the pressure of the blood; at the same time a sickly...1956, S. H. Skaife, African insect life
Synonyms of repugnatorial
Forms of repugnatorial
| comparative | more repugnatorial |
|---|---|
| superlative | most repugnatorial |
Origin of repugnatorial
From Latin repugnatorius.
Words that rhyme with repugnatorial
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Questions about repugnatorial
- What does repugnatorial mean?
- Repugnatorial means defensive or repulsive, particularly as applied to glands of certain invertebrates, with which they produce poisonous or repugnant secretions when under threat.
- What part of speech is repugnatorial?
- Repugnatorial is an adjective.
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