scleriten.
/skˈlɪərʌɪt/ Zoology.
In the anatomy of invertebrates: each of the definite component portions into which the hard portion of the substance of certain animals is divided.
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sclerite1861
1861 J. R. Greene Man. Animal Kingdom II. 161 Five kinds of these spicules, or ‘sclerites’.
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals vii. 410 [In the cockroach.] On the under side of the lingua are two broader sclerites, which also unite and form an arch.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 141 (note) In the neck there are certain chitinous pieces, or cervical sclerites.
1894 Athenæum 10 Feb. 184/1 He [M. Laurie] considered the first two ventral sclerites of the abdomen to be appendages and not sternites.
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scleˈritic adj. relating to sclerites; of the nature of a sclerite.
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