intersternal
intersternal adjective: between the sterna; said of certain membranes or parts of insects and crustaceans.
Adjective
intersternal (not comparable)
- Between the sterna; said of certain membranes or parts of insects and crustaceans.
- intersternal joints
- intersternal articulations
Origin of intersternal
From inter- + sternal.
Words that rhyme with intersternal
- kernel
- external
- internal
- colonel
- diurnal
- infernal
- journal
- eternal
- fraternal
- paternal
- maternal
- hyosternal
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- nocturnal
- sempiternal
- supernal
- vernal
- anteroexternal
- anterointernal
- antesternal
- asternal
- chondrosternal
- coeternal
- coracosternal
- costosternal
- coxosternal
- dorsoexternal
- dorsointernal
- episternal
- hesternal
- hodiernal
- infrasternal
- latisternal
- mesosternal
- metasternal
- midsternal
- nonexternal
- noninternal
- parasternal
- peristernal
- posteroexternal
- posterointernal
- poststernal
- presternal
- retrosternal
- sternal
- substernal
- supersternal
- suprasternal
- ternal
- tracheosternal
- transsternal
- vertebrosternal
Questions about intersternal
- What does intersternal mean?
- Intersternal means between the sterna; said of certain membranes or parts of insects and crustaceans.
- What part of speech is intersternal?
- Intersternal is an adjective.
Words near intersternal in the dictionary
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