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trichosor

trichosor noun: any of certain wart-like structures along the wing edges of some lacewings that bear prominent, dense, stiff hairs or setae (macrotrichia), used to diagnose taxonomic relationships among extant and extinct lacewings.

trichosor: any of certain wart-like structures along the wing edges of some lacewings that bear prominent,...
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Noun

trichosor (plural trichosors)

  1. Any of certain wart-like structures along the wing edges of some lacewings that bear prominent, dense, stiff hairs or setae (macrotrichia), used to diagnose taxonomic relationships among extant and extinct lacewings.
    • […] trichosors absent except in the Nymphidae.1977, Augustus Daniel Imms, O.W. Richards, R.G. Davies, Imms' General Textbook of Entomology, volume 2, page 808

Forms of trichosor

pluraltrichosors

Questions about trichosor

What does trichosor mean?
Trichosor means any of certain wart-like structures along the wing edges of some lacewings that bear prominent, dense, stiff hairs or setae (macrotrichia), used to diagnose taxonomic relationships among extant and extinct lacewings.
What part of speech is trichosor?
Trichosor is a noun.
What is the plural of trichosor?
The plural of trichosor is trichosors.

Words near trichosor in the dictionary

  1. trichose
  2. trichosensilla
  3. trichosensillum
  4. trichoses
  5. trichosis
  6. trichosor
  7. trichosors
  8. trichosphaeriaceous
  9. trichosporin
  10. trichosporonosis
  11. trichosporosis

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