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gabelzhan

gabelzhan noun: the offset and typically most distal tooth on the fixed digits of mesostigmatan mites.

Noun

gabelzhan (plural not attested)

  1. (no plural, rare) The offset and typically most distal tooth on the fixed digits of mesostigmatan mites.
    • […] fixed digit with 3—5 teeth, variously sized, rarely more (eight in O. leptochelae), including a subapical, laterally offset tooth (gabelzhan); […]2019 June 6, Frédéric Beaulieu, Edwin Javier Quintero-Gutiérrez, Dorothee Sandmann, Bernhard Klarner, Rahayu Widyastuti, Orlando Cómbita-Heredia, Stefan Scheu, “Review of the mite genus Ololaelaps...
    • No clear evidence of a ‘gabelzhan‘ (i.e., an off-set tooth at the cheliceral fixed digit hooked tip as in some mesostigmatids) was seen.2024 April 19, Clive E. Bowman, “Do astigmatid teeth matter: a tribological review of cheliceral chelae in co-occuring mites from UK beehives”, in Experimental and Applied Acarology, volume 92...

Forms of gabelzhan

alternative formgabelzahn

Origin of gabelzhan

From German Gabel (“fork”) + a misspelling of Zahn (“tooth”).

Questions about gabelzhan

What does gabelzhan mean?
Gabelzhan means the offset and typically most distal tooth on the fixed digits of mesostigmatan mites.
What part of speech is gabelzhan?
Gabelzhan is a noun.

Words near gabelzhan in the dictionary

  1. gabeller
  2. gabellers
  3. gabelles
  4. gabels
  5. Gabelsberger
  6. gabelzhan
  7. Gaber
  8. gaberdine
  9. gaberdines
  10. gaberlunyie
  11. gaberlunyies

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