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metazones

metazones is the plural of metazone.

Meaning of metazone

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

Questions about metazones

What is metazones the plural of?
Metazones is the plural of metazone.

Words near metazones in the dictionary

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

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