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Definition of Pleuron
1. n. One of the sides of an animal.
Definition of Pleuron
1. Noun. A lateral sclerite of a thoracic segment of an arthropod between the tergum and the sternum ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pleuron
1. a part of a thoracic segment of an insect [n -RA]
Medical Definition of Pleuron
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Origin: NL, fr. Gr. A rib.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleuron
Literary usage of Pleuron
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1863)
"JOURNAL OF A TOUR IN ACARNANIA, WITH ACCOUNT OF RUINS OF NEW pleuron, ...
the country: the other, offering some curious details of the ruins of NEW pleuron. ..."
2. Greece: Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical by Christopher Wordsworth (1844)
"The other two cities in /Etolia of the greatest celebrity in ancient times were
pleuron and CALYDON. The older town of pleuron stood at the southeast foot ..."
3. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by William Smith, Mahmoud Saba (1857)
"pleuron and Calydon were the two chief towns of Aetolia in the heroic age, ...
At the time of the Trojan War, however, pleuron was an Aetolian city, ..."
4. British Oribatidæ by Albert Davidson Michael (1884)
"14), the " basi-pleuron;" they are Nicolet's " basilar cavities," but I cannot
think that receptacles into which the whole legs can be folded are properly ..."
5. Aetolia: Its Geography, Topography, and Antiquities by William John Woodhouse (1897)
"If so, it is no less inevitable that he here identified Old pleuron with the
ruins existing at that point, those which are undoubtedly to be attributed to ..."
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