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Osmaterium - ia: fleshy, tubular, eversible processes producing a penetrating odor, capable of being projected through a slit in the prothoracic segment of certain Papilionid caterpillars, and from openings elsewhere in the bodies of other forms.

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  1. Capable of being everted, or turned inside out. Also evertile. This latter appendage is eversible, and contains a pointed calcareous concretion (spiculum amoris). Gegenbaur, Comp. Anat. (trans.), p. 383.

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  • Osmaterium - ia: fleshy, tubular, eversible processes producing a penetrating odor, capable of being projected through a slit in the prothoracic segment of certain Papilionid caterpillars, and from openings elsewhere in the bodies of other forms. —  Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
 

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  1. from Latin eversus, past participle of evertere, overturn (see evert), + -ible.
 

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