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ptilina

ptilina is the plural of ptilinum.

Meaning of ptilinum

Noun

ptilinum (plural ptilina)

  1. A bladder-like pouch on the head of schizophoran flies that by expanding enables the fly to emerge from its puparium.
    • As for the structure of the ptilinum itself, Strickland (1953) reported that the ptilina of Conopidae 'are voluminous and represent the most rugged type of ptilinum which we have encountered'.1972, Graham C. D. Griffiths, The Phylogenetic Classification of Diptera Cyclorrhapha, page 243

Questions about ptilina

What is ptilina the plural of?
Ptilina is the plural of ptilinum.

Words near ptilina in the dictionary

  1. PTI
  2. ptilichthyid
  3. ptilichthyids
  4. ptiliid
  5. ptiliids
  6. ptilina
  7. ptilinal
  8. ptilinum
  9. ptilo-
  10. ptilocerque
  11. ptilochronological

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