Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
halter .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) Balancers; the rudimentary hind wings of Diptera.
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- noun Plural form of
haltere .
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Examples
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Historians of the ancient Olympics have always questioned how hand-held weights called halteres depicted on many Greek vases and found at sporting sites all over Greece were used.
Leapin' Olympians 2003
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All this is possible because of two small, vibrating sense organs called halteres, which millions of years ago evolved from what used to be a pair of hind wings.
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All this is possible because of two small, vibrating sense organs called halteres, which millions of years ago evolved from what used to be a pair of hind wings.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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(ultrabithorax) that enables it to develop "halteres," or balancers.
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How do we know that halteres are descended from ancestral wings?
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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W. S. Pringle, my old Oxford professor whose forbidding mien and stiff bearing earned him the nickname ‘Laughing John’, was mainly responsible for working out how halteres work.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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The sense organs at the base of halteres are very similar – another piece of evidence that halteres are modified wings.
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The second pair of wings has become reduced to a pair of ‘halteres’.
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What would the intermediate stages between wings and halteres have looked like, and why would natural selection have favoured the intermediates?
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Testifying to the same story, there are mutant fruit flies, so-called homeotic mutants, whose embryology is abnormal and who grow not halteres but a second pair of wings, like a bee or any other kind of insect.
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