Elytron Definition

ĕlĭ-trŏn
elytra
noun
Either of the front pair of modified, usually thickened, wings in certain insects, esp. beetles, which act as protective covering for the rear wings.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • wing case

Other Word Forms of Elytron

Noun

Singular:
elytron
Plural:
elytra

Origin of Elytron

  • New Latin from Greek elutron sheath wel-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek ἔλυτρον (elutron, “sheath”).

    From Wiktionary

Elytron Sentence Examples

  • Sometimes the glands are found beneath the disk of the elytron, opening by pores on the surface.

  • Naturally, it is among the free living forms that the parapodium is best developed, and least developed among the tubicolous belongs typically a long tentacle, the cirrus, which 'r podium or neuropodium, and may be developed into an arborescent gill or into a flat scale-like process, A the elytron (in Polynoe, &c.).

  • The upper surface of the elytron is sharply folded inwards at intervals, so as to give rise to a regular series of external longitudinal furrows (striae) and to form a set of supports between the two chitinous layers forming the elytron.

  • Along the sutural border of the elytron, the chitinous lamella forms a tubular space within which are numerous glands.

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Words Starting With

EELELY

Words Ending With

NONRON

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Words Starting With E and Ending With N

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