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prosternal

prosternal adjective: relating to a prosternum.

Adjective

prosternal (not comparable)

  1. Relating to a prosternum
    • Prosternum and prosternal process with abundant, yellowish pubescence, distinctly longer than on pronotum.2015 August 12, Maria Helena M. Galileo, Ubirajara R. Martins, Antonio Santos-Silva, “New species and new records in Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the state of Bahia, Brazil”, in ZooKeys, →DOI

Questions about prosternal

What does prosternal mean?
Prosternal means relating to a prosternum.
What part of speech is prosternal?
Prosternal is an adjective.

Words near prosternal in the dictionary

  1. prostein
  2. prostelic
  3. prostenoid
  4. prostereoisomerism
  5. prosterna
  6. prosternal
  7. prosternation
  8. prosternations
  9. prosternum
  10. prostetic
  11. prosth-

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