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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In herpetology, one of the large special scales or scutes, generally alternating or two-rowed, which cover the under side of the tail of a snake, as the gastrosteges cover the abdomen. The number and disposition of the urosteges furnish zoölogical characters in many cases. Compare
gastrostege .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the plates on the under side of the tail of a serpent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology One of the
plates on theunderside of asnake 'stail .
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qms commented on the word urostege
A scale in the bathroom can’t harm me.
To scale a small mountain would charm me.
But I get the heebie-jeebies
When I think of urosteges,
For scales on a snake do alarm me.
May 14, 2019