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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In entomology, one of the sucking-disks or-cups on the lower surface of the tarsus of a male beetle of the genus Dytiscus, or other water-beetle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.
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- noun zoology A
cup -likesucker on thefeet of certaininsects .
Etymologies
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New Latin, diminutive of Latin patella. See patella.
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