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Definition of segment

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Segment (n.) A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle, or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration..

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Multisect :: Multisect (a.) Divided into many similar segments; -- said of an insect or myriapod.

Blastide :: Blastide (n.) A small, clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus..

Thoracica :: Thoracica (n. pl.) A division of cirripeds including those which have six thoracic segments, usually bearing six pairs of cirri. The common barnacles are examples..

#NAME? :: -some () A combining form or suffix from Gr. sw^ma (gen. sw`matos) the body; as in merosome, a body segment; cephalosome, etc..

Pantoscopic :: Pantoscopic (a.) Literally, seeing everything; -- a term applied to eyeglasses or spectacles divided into two segments, the upper being designed for distant vision, the lower for vision of near objects..

Bilobate :: Bilobate (a.) Divided into two lobes or segments.

Epipharyngeal :: Epipharyngeal (a.) Pertaining to the segments above the epibranchial in the branchial arches of fishes.

Scallop :: Scallop (v. t.) To mark or cut the edge or border of into segments of circles, like the edge or surface of a scallop shell. See Scallop, n., 2..

Nauplius :: Nauplius (n.) A crustacean larva having three pairs of locomotive organs (corresponding to the antennules, antennae, and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body..

Zoonite :: Zoonite (n.) One of the segments of the body of an articulate animal.

Surbated :: Surbased (a.) Having the vertical height from springing line to crown less than the half span; -- said of an arch; as, a segmental arch is surbased..

Metasome :: Metasome (n.) One of the component segments of the body of an animal.

Cremaster :: Cremaster (n.) The apex of the last abdominal segment of an insect.

Sternum :: Sternum (n.) A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone..

Ectental :: Ectental (a.) Relating to, or connected with, the two primitive germ layers, the ectoderm and ectoderm; as, the ectental line or line of juncture of the two layers in the segmentation of the ovum..

Myotome :: Myotome (n.) A muscular segment; one of the zones into which the muscles of the trunk, especially in fishes, are divided; a myocomma..

Thigh :: Thigh (n.) The proximal segment of the hind limb between the knee and the trunk. See Femur.

Pedate :: Pedate (a.) Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments; -- said of a leaf..

Arthrostraca :: Arthrostraca (n. pl.) One of the larger divisions of Crustacea, so called because the thorax and abdomen are both segmented; Tetradecapoda. It includes the Amphipoda and Isopoda..

Trilobite :: Trilobite (n.) Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on each segment..