off-throw

Updated: May 21, 2025

Let us open a Chalicodoma grub under the microscope, during the period of torpor. Its contents consists almost entirely of a liquid broth, in which swim numberless oily globules and a fine dust of uric acid, a sort of off-throw of the oxidized tissues.

Jean-Henri Fabre - The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography