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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In entomology: A collective name for the apodemes or interior processes of the sternum in the thorax of an insect.
  • noun Any one of these processes, generally distinguished as antefurca, mesofurca, and postfurca.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Anat.) See entoplastron.

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  • noun anatomy The entoplastron.

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ento- +‎ sternum

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