Definition of Episterna

1. Noun. (plural of episternum) ¹

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Definition of Episterna

1. episternum [n] - See also: episternum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Episterna

epistemes
epistemic
epistemic logic
epistemically
epistemicism
epistemicist
epistemicists
epistemological
epistemological turn
epistemologically
epistemologies
epistemologist
epistemologists
epistemology
epistemophilia
episterna (current term)
episternal
episternal bone
episternum
episternums
epistilbite
epistle
epistle lesson
epistle lessons
epistled
epistler
epistlers
epistles
epistling
epistolar

Literary usage of Episterna

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. by American Entomological Society (1882)
"... the episterna i*» size and reach the coxal cavity. In the other two sub-families the ef>imera vary in width but do not reach the coxos, ..."

2. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia by Royal Society of South Australia (1900)
"For my part I do not find the diversity in the episterna. of the species ... But however that may be it appears to me that the episterna of the least ..."

3. ... Arrangement of the Families of Mammals. With Analytical Tables by Theodore Gill (1874)
"Front quadrate perpendicular ; head not carinated ; episterna of metathorax wide. ... episterna of metathorax narrow. ..."

4. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1896)
"Pro- sternal episterna rugose on basal declivities EE. Head with a decided lateral sinuosity between supra-antennal plates and wings of clypeus. ..."

5. Catalogue of the Described Diptera of North America by Carl Robert Osten-Sacken (1862)
"... the anterior pair is called the episterna, and the hind pair the ... and episterna ; these pieces are distinct, except that rarely the ..."

6. Suggestions for the Sanitary Drainage of Washington City by George Edwin Waring (1883)
"Clytus. Head carinated. Xylotrechus. Front quadrate, perpendicular ; head not carinated ; episterna of metathorax wide. ..."

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