(Zool.) A minute smooth rodlike or fusiform structure found in the tissues of many Turbellaria.
2.
(Zool.) One of the hard parts forming the ovipositor of insects.
rhabdite
rhabdite
[′rab‚dīt] (invertebrate zoology) A small rodlike or fusiform body secreted by epidermal or parenchymal cells of certain turbellarians and trematodes. (mineralogy) schreibersite