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chetotaxy

chetotaxy is the alternative form 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 chetotaxy

What is chetotaxy the alternative form of?
Chetotaxy is the alternative form of chaetotaxy.

Words near chetotaxy in the dictionary

  1. Chetnole
  2. chetocin
  3. chetomin
  4. chetopod
  5. chetopods
  6. chetotaxy
  7. Chetral
  8. chetrum
  9. chetrums
  10. chets
  11. chetti

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