Pleuron Definition

plo͝orŏn
pleura
noun
Either of the lateral plates on the thoracic and abdominal segments of an arthropod.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Pleuron

Noun

Singular:
pleuron
Plural:
pleura 1

Origin of Pleuron

  • New Latin from Greek side, rib

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

Pleuron Sentence Examples

  • In early legend Old Aetolia, with its cities of Pleuron and Calydon, figures prominently.

  • A dorsal and a ventral plate are often distinguished, known respectively as the tergum and the sternum, and the tergum may overhang the insertion of the limb on each side as a free plate called the pleuron.

  • The name epimeron is sometimes applied to what is here called the pleuron, but the word has been used in widely different senses and it seems better to abandon it.

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