Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sclerite forming part of the tergum.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The tergum, dorsum, or back of one of the somites or segments of an articulated animal, as an arthropod.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The dorsal portion of an arthromere or somite of an articulate animal. See
Illust. undercoleoptera .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy The
dorsal portion of anarticulate animal'sarthromere orsomite .
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Examples
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Gastric caeca: = caecum; q.v. Gastro-coeli: a pair of usually transverse lateral pits near the base of the second abdominal tergite in some Hymenoptera.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Anal plate: in caterpillars, the shield-like covering of the dorsum of the last segment: in the embryonic larva the 11th tergite.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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