Definition of Peraeon

1. pereion [n PERAEONS or PERAEA] - See also: pereion

Lexicographical Neighbors of Peraeon

per year
peracephalus
peracetate
peracetates
peracetic
peracetic acid
peracid
peracids
peract
peracted
peracting
peracute
peradventure
peradventures
peraea
peraeon (current term)
peraeons
peraeopod
peraeopoda
peraeopods
peragration
peragrations
perai
perais
peralkaline
peraluminous
perambulate
perambulated
perambulates
perambulating

Literary usage of Peraeon

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

1. A History of Crustacea: Recent Malacostraca by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing (1893)
"All the limbs of the peraeon are long, the first pair more slender and ... The first four segments of the peraeon have each a long spine on either side ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1899)
"The first segment of the peraeon is only about two- thirds as long as the second. The antero-inferior angle is produced forward to occupy the triangular ..."

3. A Monograph on the Isopods of North America by Harriet Richardson (1905)
"... and the pleon tapers more suddenly than the peraeon as far as the base of the sixth segment, the sides of which diverge to the point of insertion of the ..."

4. Report of Progress for by Geological Survey of Canada (1880)
"... height of carapax 2-0 Greatest breadth of carapax 1-8 Length of 3rd and 4th free segments of peraeon along ..."

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