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mesopleura

mesopleura is the plural of mesopleuron.

Meaning of mesopleuron

Noun

mesopleuron (plural mesopleura)

  1. The lateral surface of the mesothorax
    • In most chalcidoids, the mesopleura have a groove for the femora, but encyrtids lack this groove (as do the signiphorids, tanaostigmatids, some aphelinids, and some eupelmids).2005, Norman F. Johnson, Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects, page 531

Questions about mesopleura

What is mesopleura the plural of?
Mesopleura is the plural of mesopleuron.

Words near mesopleura in the dictionary

  1. mesoplastics
  2. mesoplastra
  3. mesoplastral
  4. mesoplastron
  5. mesoplasts
  6. mesopleura
  7. mesopleural
  8. mesopleuron
  9. mesoplodont
  10. mesoplodonts
  11. mesoploid

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