Sentence examples for the scopa from inspiring English sources
noun
Any of various body parts of non-parasitic bees that serve to carry pollen. In parasitic Hymenoptera it refers to a local patch of hairs, regardless of function.
These hairs constitute the scopa, or pollen-bearing structure.
In many colletids and halictids, the scopa is limited to the hind legs.
In leaf-cutting bees (Megachilidae), the scopa is limited to the underside of the abdomen.
In some colletids (Hyaleinae), the scopa is absent, and the pollen, mixed with nectar, is carried to the nest in the crop (anterior end of the digestive tract).
Such bees not only lack the scopa (i.e., pollen-collecting apparatus) and other structures associated with collecting and carrying pollen but also lack the various structures of the jaws and legs that other species use for making nests.
In two subfamilies, Panurginae and Anthophorinae, the scopa is enlarged on the fourth segment (tibiae) of the hind legs and reduced or absent on the abdomen and on the basal leg segments.
Visser, M., Marinus, J., Stiggelbout, A. M. & Van Hilten, J. J. Assessment of autonomic dysfunction in Parkinson's disease: the SCOPA-AUT.
With about 500 properties on his books, Manolis Akalestos, who runs the Scopas estate agency on the island of Paros, confirms that view.
The interviews followed a discussion guide developed specifically for the SCOPA-DC evaluation and cognitive review.
Based on findings from focus groups, the SCOPA-DC was revised and administered to a sample of 101 PD patients.
The SCOPA-DC was validated in a sample of cognitively unimpaired PD patients recruited from Leiden University Medical Center, in the Netherlands, and has not been validated in the U.S. In addition, non-motor symptoms are absent from the SCOPA-DC, thus missing an increasingly important area of PD symptomatology [ 7].
