Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In arthropods, the head region.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The anterior region or head of insects and other arthropods.
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- noun zoology The
anterior region orhead ofinsects and otherarthropods .
Etymologies
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cephalo- + -some
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