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harpagone

harpagone noun: the clasping organ of male genitalia, one of the gonopods.

Noun

harpagone (plural harpagones)

  1. (plural-normally) The clasping organ of male genitalia, one of the gonopods
    • ...a pair of primitively two-segmented arms, the gonopods (claspers, forcipate claspers, anterior gonapophyses, pregonites, harpagones, parameres) arising posterolaterally on sternite 9...1981, Manual of Nearctic Diptera, volume 1, →ISBN, page 45

Forms of harpagone

pluralharpagones

Questions about harpagone

What does harpagone mean?
Harpagone means the clasping organ of male genitalia, one of the gonopods.
What part of speech is harpagone?
Harpagone is a noun.
What is the plural of harpagone?
The plural of harpagone is harpagones.

Words near harpagone in the dictionary

  1. harpagide
  2. harpagiferid
  3. harpagiferids
  4. harpago
  5. harpagon
  6. harpagone
  7. harpagones
  8. harpagons
  9. harpagoside
  10. harpaline
  11. harpalines

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