Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a spurious dissepiment or partition, us that which occurs at the nodes of certain calamites, and in various fruits.
- noun In zoology, a partition, septum, dissepiment, or diaphragm.
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IM: intersegmental membrane; PPh: prephragma of the mesonotum; 1 Ph: first phragma of the mesonotum; PS: pronotal sulcus.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Richard P. Berry et al. 2010
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Pronotum not shown to expose the prephragma, first phragma and
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Richard P. Berry et al. 2010
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The most notable feature of the anterior mesonotum is the infolding of the body wall on the ventral rim (prephragma (anteriorly)) and first phragma (laterally)) (
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Richard P. Berry et al. 2010
missanthropist commented on the word phragma
Greek Division, split.
July 11, 2008