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heminotum

heminotum noun: either half of the back of an insect.

Noun

heminotum (plural heminota)

  1. Either half of the back of an insect
    • To highlight the phenotype, lacking macrochaetae are encircled on the left heminotum.2015 October 9, “Generation of New Hairless Alleles by Genomic Engineering at the Hairless Locus in Drosophila melanogaster”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of heminotum

pluralheminota

Origin of heminotum

From hemi- + notum.

Questions about heminotum

What does heminotum mean?
Heminotum means either half of the back of an insect.
What part of speech is heminotum?
Heminotum is a noun.
What is the plural of heminotum?
The plural of heminotum is heminota.

Words near heminotum in the dictionary

  1. Hemingways
  2. heminodal
  3. heminode
  4. heminodes
  5. heminota
  6. heminotum
  7. hemins
  8. hemiobol
  9. hemiobols
  10. hemiodontid
  11. hemiodontids

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