paraglossa

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek [Term?] (“beside”) + [Term?] (“tongue”)

Noun

paraglossa (plural paraglossas or paraglossae)

  1. (zoology) One of a pair of small appendages of the lingua or labium 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “paraglossa”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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