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Centrolecithal :: Centrolecithal (a.) Having the food yolk placed at the center of the ovum, segmentation being either regular or unequal..

Moonwort :: Moonwort (n.) Any fern of the genus Botrychium, esp. B. Lunaria; -- so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond..

Lunary :: Lunary (n.) A low fleshy fern (Botrychium Lunaria) with lunate segments of the leaf or frond.

Prothorax :: Prothorax (n.) The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera.

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..

Brachium :: Brachium (n.) The upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow.

Proleg :: Proleg (n.) One of the fleshy legs found on the abdominal segments of the larvae of Lepidoptera, sawflies, and some other insects. Those of Lepidoptera have a circle of hooks. Called also proped, propleg, and falseleg..

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

Actinomere :: Actinomere (n.) One of the radial segments composing the body of one of the Coelenterata.

Propodium :: Propodium (n.) The segment which forms the posterior part of the thorax of a hymenopterous insect.

Setigerous :: Setigerous (a.) Covered with bristles; having or bearing a seta or setae; setiferous; as, setigerous glands; a setigerous segment of an annelid; specifically (Bot.), tipped with a bristle..

Glowworm :: Glowworm (n.) A coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris; esp., the wingless females and larvae of the two European species (L. noctiluca, and L. splendidula), which emit light from some of the abdominal segments..

Heeltap :: Heeltap (n.) One of the segments of leather in the heel of a shoe.

Segment :: Segment (n.) A segment gear.

Paries :: Paries (n.) The triangular middle part of each segment of the shell of a barnacle.

Arthromere :: Arthromere (n.) One of the body segments of Arthropods. See Arthrostraca.

Myotome :: Myotome (n.) One of the embryonic muscular segments arising from the protovertebrae; also, one of the protovertebrae themselves..

Hypobranchial :: Hypobranchial (a.) Pertaining to the segment between the basibranchial and the ceratobranchial in a branchial arch.

Metamere :: Metamere (n.) One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of Loeven's larva..

Desegmentation :: Desegmentation (n.) The loss or obliteration of division into segments; as, a desegmentation of the body..

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