comb. form of L. longus LONG, in many scientific terms: Longicaudal, -caudate adjs. [L. cauda tail], long-tailed (Mayne, Expos. Lex., 1856). Longicauline a. [Gr. καυλός stem], long-stemmed (Syd. Soc. Lex., 1889). Longicollous a. [L. collum neck], Bot. ‘applied to mosses that have urns in the form of a very elongated pear’; Ent. ‘having the neck or the corselet long’ (ibid.). Longicone a. Conch. [CONE], having a long cone, said of certain cephalopods; also as sb. Longilabrous a. [LABRUM], having a long labrum, as some Hemiptera (Mayne). † Longilateral a. [LATERAL], long-sided; of the form of a long parallelogram. Longilingual a. Zool. [LINGUAL], having a long tongue (Cent. Dict.). Longipalp sb. and a. Zool. [PALP], sb. one of the Longipalpi, a group of beetles having long maxillary feelers (Brande, Dict. Sci., etc. 1842); adj. pertaining to the Longipalpi (Cassell, 1884). So Longipalpate, -palpous adjs., having long palps (Syd. Soc. Lex.). Longipedate, Longipede adjs. [L. pēs, pedis foot], long-footed (Syd. Soc. Lex.). Longipennate a. Ornith. [PENNATE] next (Ogilvie, Suppl., 1855). Longipennine a. Ornith. [mod.L. Longipennes; L. penna wing], long-winged; pertaining to the Longipennes or long-winged natatorial birds (Cent. Dict.). Longiroster Ornith. [mod.L. Longirostres; L. rostrum beak], one of the Longirostres, a family of wading birds distinguished by the length and tenuity of the bill (Brande, Dict. Sci., etc. 1842). Longirostral a. [see prec.], pertaining to or resembling the Longirostres; also Longirostrate a., in same sense (Mayne). Longisect v. [L. sect-, secāre to cut], to bisect lengthwise and horizontally (Cent. Dict.). Longisection [SECTION], longitudinal division of the body in a plane parallel with the axis and at right angles to the meson (ibid.). Longitarsal a. [TARSAL], having a long tarsus (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1884. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., XXII. 275. Kionoceras, nobis, includes the *longicones in which the longitudinal ridges are more prominent than the transverse striae or ridges. Ibid., 276. All those longicone species.
1658. Sir T. Browne, Gard. Cyrus, i. 37. The decussis is made within a *longilateral square, with opposite angles. Ibid., ii. 44. Nineveh … was of a longilateral figure.
1855. Ogilvie, Suppl., *Longirostral.
1890. Coues, Field & Gen. Ornithol., II. 149. The longirostral [type],… best exhibited in the great snipe family.
