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Testa   /tˈɛstə/   Listen
noun
Testa, Test  n.  (pl. E. tests, L. testae)  
1.
(Zool.) The external hard or firm covering of many invertebrate animals. Note: The test of crustaceans and insects is composed largely of chitin; in mollusks it is composed chiefly of calcium carbonate, and is called the shell.
2.
(Bot.) The outer integument of a seed; the episperm, or spermoderm.





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"Testa" Quotes from Famous Books



... Their house will be a very good one for you at Rome; and I would advise you to be domestic in it if you can. But Madame, I can tell you, requires great attentions. Madame Micheli has written a very favorable account of you to my friend the Abbe Grossa Testa, in a letter which he showed me, and in which there are so many civil things to myself, that I would wish to tell her how much I think myself obliged to her. I approve very much of the allotment of your time at Venice; pray go on so for ...
— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield
... testa!" answered a solemn and imperious voice, accompanied by a menacing gesture. Danglars thought dentro la testa meant, "Put in your head!" He was making rapid progress in Italian. He obeyed, not without some uneasiness, which, momentarily increasing, caused his mind, instead of being as ...
— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... p. 141. "Una testa nel deposito a mano destra della Porta Maggiore, e scoltura di Donatello Fiorentino." In Chapel of Paul V., Sta. M. Maggiore: "In terra in una lapide vi e di profilo la figura del Canonico Morosini, opera di Donatello ...
— Donatello • David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford
... encircled with a charming little garden, a bit of colour and greenery squeezed in, as it were, between cliff and fortress, from which one looks down over precipices of red rock with the prickly pear clinging to their clefts and ledges, or across a rift of sea to the huge bare front of the Testa del Cane with gigantic euphorbias, cactus, and orange-gardens fringing its base. A bribe administered to Talleyrand is said to have saved the political existence of Monaco at the Congress of Vienna: but it is far more wonderful that, after all the annexations ...
— Stray Studies from England and Italy • John Richard Green
... datta fora tal opera come cose composto da sua testa ma come cose ellette raccolte e copiate de diverse libri a penna."—Quesiti et ...
— Jerome Cardan - A Biographical Study • William George Waters


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