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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The rearmost segment of the body of certain arthropods.
  2. n. An extension of this segment, such as the middle lobe of the tail fan of a lobster or the stinger of a scorpion.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In zoology, the last segment, or an azygous appendage of the last segment, or the median axis of the last segment, whether in one piece or more, of certain crustaceans and arachmidans, as the middle flipper of a lobster's tail-fin, the long sharp tail of a horseshoe-crab, and the sting of a scorpion. In long-tailed crustaceans a broad flat telson combines with similar swimmerets to form the rhipidura. In some thysanurous insects the telson is a small plate at the end of the abdomen, and is either a modified segment or, more probably, a median azygous appendage. See cuts under Amphithoë, Eurypterida, horseshoe-crab, scorpion, and Squillidæ.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The part of an arthropod posterior to the last segment.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) The terminal joint or movable piece at the end of the abdomen of Crustacea and other articulates. See thoracostraca.

Etymologies

  1. Ancient Greek a boundary, limit. (Wiktionary)
  2. Greek, limit. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The boys have a triangle shaped telson (tail) while the girls have an oval shaped telson which is used to carry the eggs tucked in between it and the body.”

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  • “The median length of the carapace was taken, from the tip of the rostrum to the posterior edge, and the length of the abdomen was taken from this point to the edge of the telson.”

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  • “The new species is distinguished from all the known species of the genus by the combination of broadly rounded rostrum, narrower eyes and the spination of the uropodal endopod and telson.”

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  • “So, wait, what does Pam’s gender history have to do with this? reply telson”

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. leuconidæ
  2. tail-fan
  3. xiphurous
  4. sword-tailed
  1. campylaspidæ
  2. cercopod
  3. hyperiidea
  4. lepidurus
  1. tail fan
  2. pleon
  3. post-abdomen
  4. rhipidura
  1. scorpionida
  2. sting
  3. dithyrocaris
  4. flapper
  1. lampropsidæ
  2. nematocarcinidæ
  3. olenellus
  4. sculda
  1. stylonurus
  2. xiphoid

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  • ruzuzu Same crust time, same crustacean. Apr 14, 2011

  • pterodactyl So this would be the segment after the last commercial break but before the start of the next crustacean? Apr 14, 2011

  • reesetee Are all of the segments named? Just askin'. Feb 11, 2008

  • sionnach last segment of a crustacean. Feb 10, 2008

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