Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In certain crustaceans, as the amphipods, the last three segments of the pleon or abdomen. Compare mesosome and metasome.
  • noun In biology: The last morphological segment of the tail; the terminal somatome of a vertebrate. See gephyrocercal.
  • noun The post-thoracic region of the body of arthropods; the abdomen or postabdomen as distinguished from the cephalothorax, and as composed of a series of urosomites or uromeres.

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

  • noun (Zoöl.) The abdomen, or post-abdomen, of arthropods.

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  • noun zoology The abdomen or postabdomen of an arthropod.

Etymologies

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uro- + -some

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