单词 | tergite |
释义 | tergiten. Zoology. A back-plate, formed by the fusion of a pair of serial plates of one of the somites or segments of an arthropod or other articulated animal. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > subkingdom Articulata > [noun] > member of > back-plate of tergite1885 1885 Athenæum 5 Dec. 736/2 On the opposite interior surface of the last tergite are chitinous points. 1899 G. H. Carpenter Insects i. 21 The pronotum..is larger than the two succeeding tergites (mesonotum and metanotum). Derivatives tergitic adj. /təˈdʒɪtɪk/ of or pertaining to a tergite. ΚΠ 1891 in Cent. Dict. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1885 |
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