Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of the forewings of a heteropteran insect, having a thick leathery base and a membranous apex.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the partially thickened anterior wings of certain insects, as of many Hemiptera, the earwigs, etc.
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- noun anatomy An
insect 'sforewing with bothmembranous andhardened portions .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[hem(i)– + elytron.]
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hemi- + elytron
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