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Webster 1913 Edition
Coarctate
1.
To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely.
[Obs.]
Bacon.
2.
To restrain; to confine.
[Obs.]
Ayliffe.
Co-arc′tate
,Adj.
[L.
coarctatus
, p. p. of coarctare
to press together; co-
+ arctare
to press together, from arctus
, p. p. See Arctation
.] (Zool.)
Pressed together; closely connected; – applied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction.
Coarctate pupa
(Zool.)
, a pupa closely covered by the old larval skin, as in most Diptera.