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cryptopentamerous
cryptopentamerous adj.
Brit. 
/ˌkrɪptə(ʊ)pɛnˈtam(ə)rəs/
, /ˌkrɪptə(ʊ)pɛnˈtam(ə)rəs/U.S. /ˌkrɪptoʊˌpɛnˈtæmərəs/
[after post-classical Latin cryptopentamera, plural (1832 in the passage translated in quot. 1836, alongside German fünfgliedrige)] Entomology (now rare) (of an insect) having tarsi that seem to have four joints but actually have five, with one of the joints minute or concealed; (of a tarsus) having this form.Such tarsi are characteristic of certain groups of beetles./ˌkrɪptoʊˌpɛnˈtæmərəs/ΚΠ
1836 W. E. Shuckard tr. H. Burmeister Man. Entomol. i. iii. 103 Crypto-pentamerous (crypto-pentamera), are those which truly possess five joints, but in which the penultimate is so small that it can be perceived only upon the most rigid inspection, and by means of a lens (Cerambyx).
1895 Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 3 239 We might have in this insect a cryptopentamerous group of the Chalcididæ.
1964 Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Biologica 324 Crypto-pentamerous tarsi are a current phenomenon in Cleridae.
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- to tie up into a knot
- to tie up into knots
- to tie up one's hands, one's tongue
- to tie with st mary's knot
- to tig and tar
- to tighten one's belt
- to tilt up
- to time
- to time it out
- to time out
- to time that
- to tine one's ears
- to tine one's ears occasionally ear
- to tine one's maidenhead
- to tine, leave, lose the sweat
- to ting in
- to ting out
- to tip
- to tip a nod
- to tip a person a stave
- to tip a person the black spot
- to tip a person the go-by
- to tip a person the goby
- to tip a person the picks
- to tip a person the pikes