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metazone

metazone noun: the posterior zone of the pronotum in an insect of the family Acrididae or Gryllidae.

Noun

metazone (plural metazones)

  1. The posterior zone of the pronotum in an insect of the family Acrididae or Gryllidae.
    • Median carina strongly cristate on the prozone and on the metazone and with one deep transverse incision so that the prozone is only about one-third the length of the metazone, the incision inclined anterio-ventrad.1924, William Williams Henderson, A Taxonomic and Ecological Study of the Species of the Subfamily Oedipodinae (Orthoptera-Acrididae) Found in Utah, page 53

Forms of metazone

pluralmetazones

Origin of metazone

From meta- + zone. Piecewise doublet of metazona.

Questions about metazone

What does metazone mean?
Metazone means the posterior zone of the pronotum in an insect of the family Acrididae or Gryllidae.
What part of speech is metazone?
Metazone is a noun.
What is the plural of metazone?
The plural of metazone is metazones.

Words near metazone in the dictionary

  1. metazocine
  2. metazoic
  3. metazona
  4. metazonae
  5. metazonal
  6. metazone
  7. metazones
  8. metazonite
  9. metazonites
  10. metazoon
  11. metazoons

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