Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In entomology, the third one of the three sclerites into which each pleuron, right and left, or lateral segment of each thoracic somite, is divisible, the first and second of these sclerites being respectively the episternum and the epimeron.
- noun In ornithology, the scapular and adjoining feathers of the wing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A special plate situated on the sides of the mesothorax and metathorax of certain insects.
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- noun zoology A special
plate situated on the sides of themesothorax andmetathorax of certaininsects .
Etymologies
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New Latin. See para-, and pteron.
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