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toxicognaths

toxicognaths is the plural of toxicognath.

Meaning of toxicognath

Noun

toxicognath (plural toxicognaths)

  1. One of a pair of modified legs on a centipede which function as poison fangs.
    • Colour yellowish brown, with the cephalite and toxicognaths darker reddish brown. Integument sparsely hairy and punctured. Cephalite parallel-sided, its posterior border convexly rounded; frontal area with its sides converging[…]1902, Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, page 423

Questions about toxicognaths

What is toxicognaths the plural of?
Toxicognaths is the plural of toxicognath.

Words near toxicognaths in the dictionary

  1. toxicogenome
  2. toxicogenomes
  3. toxicogenomic
  4. toxicogenomics
  5. toxicognath
  6. toxicognaths
  7. toxicoid
  8. toxicoinfection
  9. toxicoinfections
  10. toxicoinfectious
  11. toxicokinetic

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