Definition of Pleonal

1. pleon [adj] - See also: pleon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleonal

pleochroisms
pleochromatic
pleochromatism
pleocytosis
pleomastia
pleomorphic
pleomorphic adenoma
pleomorphic lipoma
pleomorphic oligodendroglioma
pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma
pleomorphic rhabdosarcoma
pleomorphism
pleomorphisms
pleomorphous
pleon
pleonal (current term)
pleonasm
pleonasms
pleonast
pleonaste
pleonastes
pleonastic
pleonastically
pleonasts
pleonectic
pleonexia
pleonic
pleonosteosis
pleons
pleophony

Literary usage of Pleonal

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

1. A Monograph on the Isopods of North America by Harriet Richardson (1905)
"The three last pleonal segments are broader than the urns (10 : 9) and a little narrower than the fifth (or fourth) segment of the ..."

2. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1886)
"The females differ from the males in having the processes of the pleonal segment less prominent, the inferior antennae shorter, and the posterior ..."

3. A Monograph of the British Fossil Crustacea, Belonging to the Order Merostomata by Henry Woodward (1878)
"... has to give an account of the intermediate or ' evolutionary transitional' condition of the three ' pleonal' (abdominal) segments manifest outwardly, ..."

4. Catalogue of the Australian Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crustacea by William Aitcheson Haswell, Australian Museum (1882)
"Posterior borders of the pleonal segments with comb-like rows of acute teeth. Coxae shallower than their respective segments, fifth pair deeper than fourth. ..."

5. Bulletin by United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution (1905)
"The three last pleonal segments are broader than the urus (10:9) and a little narrower than the fifth (or fourth) segment of the ..."

6. Contributions to the Natural History of the Isopoda by Harriet Richardson (1904)
"... in having all the pleonal segments fused to form a single segment. The fusion of the five anterior segments into one is characteristic of the ..."

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