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sustentor

sustentor noun: one of two posterior projections of a butterfly chrysalis.

Noun

sustentor (plural sustentors)

  1. One of two posterior projections of a butterfly chrysalis.

Forms of sustentor

pluralsustentors

Questions about sustentor

What does sustentor mean?
Sustentor means one of two posterior projections of a butterfly chrysalis.
What part of speech is sustentor?
Sustentor is a noun.
What is the plural of sustentor?
The plural of sustentor is sustentors.

Words near sustentor in the dictionary

  1. sustentator
  2. sustentators
  3. sustention
  4. sustentions
  5. sustentive
  6. sustentor
  7. sustentors
  8. suster
  9. Susterian
  10. susters
  11. sustinent

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