the posterior part of an arachnid's abdomen (opisthosoma) that never carries appendages
Examples of 'metasoma' in a sentence
metasoma
Of these characters, discriminant function analysis suggested that metasoma segment 1 width was the most appropriate.
Gerad A. Fox, Allen M. Cooper, William K. Hayes 2015, 'The Dilemma of Choosing a Reference Character for Measuring Sexual Size Dimorphism,Sexual Body Component Dimorphism, and Character Scaling: Cryptic Dimorphism and Allometryin the Scorpion Hadrurus arizonensis', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0120392. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)