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chaetomes

chaetomes is the plural of chaetome.

Meaning of chaetome

Noun

chaetome (plural chaetomes)

  1. The bristly hairlike appendages growing from the limbs of various mite species, taken as a single bodily organ.
    • In the chaetome (setation) of Phthiracaroidea legs the number of solenidia is given in parenthesis and follows the number of simple setae […]2003, “New species of ptyctimous oribatid mites from the Neotropical region”, in Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, volume 49, number 49, page 261

Questions about chaetomes

What is chaetomes the plural of?
Chaetomes is the plural of chaetome.

Words near chaetomes in the dictionary

  1. chaetognathids
  2. chaetognaths
  3. chaetome
  4. chaetomellic acid
  5. chaetomellic acids
  6. chaetomes
  7. chaetomiaceous
  8. chaetomin
  9. chaetonotid
  10. chaetonotidan
  11. chaetonotidans

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