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chætotaxy

chætotaxy is the obsolete spelling of chaetotaxy.

Meaning of chaetotaxy

Noun

chaetotaxy (countable and uncountable, plural chaetotaxies)

  1. The arrangement of, and study of arrangement of, chaetae (chitinous bristles) on a species or subspecies of animal, usually and especially an arthropod or annelid.
    • I propose the term Chætotaxy for the arrangement of bristles on the different parts of the body of the Diptera, the composition of this term being analogous to phyllotaxy, the order or arrangement of leaves of plants.1884 November 5, C. R. Osten-Sacken, “An Essay of Comparative Chætotaxy, or the arrangement of characteristic bristles of Diptera”, in Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, London...

Questions about chætotaxy

What is chætotaxy the obsolete spelling of?
Chætotaxy is the obsolete spelling of chaetotaxy.

Words near chætotaxy in the dictionary

  1. Chæronea
  2. chæta
  3. chætognath
  4. chætognaths
  5. chætophorous
  6. chætotaxy
  7. chætæ
  8. chèvre
  9. chèvres
  10. Chédiak-Higashi syndrome
  11. Chénens

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