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from The Century Dictionary.
- In entomology, overhanging; projecting over another part: specifically applied to the scutellum when it projects backward over the metathorax, as in many Diptera.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Overhanging.
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