Word.ws English Dictionary

hemelytron

hemelytron noun: an insect's forewing with both membranous and hardened portions.

Noun

hemelytron (plural hemelytra)

  1. An insect's forewing with both membranous and hardened portions.

Forms of hemelytron

pluralhemelytra

Origin of hemelytron

From hemi- + elytron.

Questions about hemelytron

What does hemelytron mean?
Hemelytron means an insect's forewing with both membranous and hardened portions.
What part of speech is hemelytron?
Hemelytron is a noun.
What is the plural of hemelytron?
The plural of hemelytron is hemelytra.

Words near hemelytron in the dictionary

  1. hemelipoprotein
  2. hemelipoproteins
  3. hemellitol
  4. hemelytra
  5. hemelytral
  6. hemelytron
  7. hemelytrum
  8. Hemenway
  9. Hemenways
  10. hemeostasis
  11. hemeprotein

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hemelytron (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hemelytron.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hemelytron. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.