parapleura
English
Noun
parapleura (plural parapleurae)
- (zoology) A chitinous piece between the metasternum and the pleuron of certain insects.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for parapleura in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)