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- noun Plural form of
valva .
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Examples
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Ipse, literally _self_, acquires its special force from the context; as, -- eō ipsō diē, _on that very day_; ad ipsam rīpam, _close to the bank_; ipsō terrōre, _by mere fright_; valvae sē ipsae aperuērunt, _the doors opened of their own accord_; ipse aderat, _he was present in person_.
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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He was not much acquainted with valves of any sort, but he knew that valvae were folding-doors, and through this crevice came a sudden light startling him with his first vivid notion of finely adjusted mechanism in the human frame.
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He was not much acquainted with valves of any sort, but he knew that valvae were folding-doors, and through this crevice came a sudden light startling him with his first vivid notion of finely adjusted mechanism in the human frame.
Middlemarch 1871
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He was not much acquainted with valves of any sort, but he knew that valvae were folding-doors, and through this crevice came a sudden light startling him with his first vivid notion of finely adjusted mechanism in the human frame.
Middlemarch George Eliot 1849
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Stijgma I. Capfula longa corniculata concorta i-locularis 4 - valvis; valvae feminibus emiffis contorta».
Antonii Laurentii de Jussieu ... Genera plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita : juxta methodum in horto regio Parisiensi exaratam, anno M.DCC.LXXIV Barrois, Théophile, printer 1789
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Hahiiat frcqueai iit mari meiliterraneo, maxiMae tejlae Jiilcii traiitverjim Jiriatis, valvae fiiperiorii radiit rclundatit, uan longitudinaiiter, ftd tra firiath, aurituVuiaeviJpntis.
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§ 249. ipso terrore, _B. G._ iv, 33, 1. valvae se, _Div. _ i, 74.
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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$a mugiunt aurea claiustra mundi* A lano, antiquiasimo Xtaliae rege, doraorum valvae, pe - rae ec claves excogitatae, ifanuae-*
hernesheir commented on the word valvae
n., (plural): the genital parts by which a male insect holds a female during copulation.
January 7, 2009