Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little claw; specifically, in entomology, a small appendage of the terminal joint of the tarsus of many insects, between the two claws with which the tarsus usually ends.
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- noun small terrestrial ferns of Old World tropics and subtropics: clawed ferns; sometimes placed in family Cryptogrammataceae
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Examples
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Coleoptera; the bifid pseudotarsi between the claws: used also as = pulvillus; and see arolium, onychium, palmula, paronychium, plantula, pseudonychium and pulvillus.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Arolium - ia: cushion-like pads on the tarsi of many insects: one of the lobes of the pulvillus; in Orthoptera, used only for the terminal pad between the claws: see empodium; pulvillus; palmula; plantula; onychium, paronychium, pseudonychium.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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