Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In certain crustaceans, as the amphipods, the last three segments of the pleon or abdomen. Compare
mesosome and metasome. - noun In biology: The last morphological segment of the tail; the terminal somatome of a vertebrate. See
gephyrocercal . - noun The post-thoracic region of the body of arthropods; the abdomen or postabdomen as distinguished from the cephalothorax, and as composed of a series of urosomites or uromeres.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The abdomen, or post-abdomen, of arthropods.
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- noun zoology The
abdomen orpostabdomen of anarthropod .
Etymologies
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uro- + -some
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