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praeabdomen

praeabdomen is the archaic form of preabdomen.

Meaning of preabdomen

Noun

preabdomen (plural preabdomens or preabdomina)

  1. The enlarged anterior portion of the abdomen of a scorpion or sea scorpion
  2. The anterior segments of the abdomen, distinguished from the posterior segments holding the reproductive apparatus.
    • The anthomyiid oviscapt (postabdomen) is as regards the ground plan undoubtedly slender, well set off from and hardly shorter than the preabdomen, and has slender cerci with projecting, cylindrical apices.2013, Verner Michelsen, “Proposal of Karliella gen. n. for the Afrotropical ‘Pegomya’ sexpunctata Karl, 1935 (Diptera: Anthomyiidae), a possible kleptoparasite of dung-breeding beetles”, in African...

Questions about praeabdomen

What is praeabdomen the archaic form of?
Praeabdomen is the archaic form of preabdomen.

Words near praeabdomen in the dictionary

  1. prads
  2. Pradyumn
  3. Pradyumna
  4. prae-
  5. prae-mortem
  6. praeabdomen
  7. praeacetabular
  8. praeamble
  9. praeambles
  10. praeanal
  11. praecava

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