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Definition of Tergal
1. a. Of or pertaining to back, or tergum. See Dorsal.
Definition of Tergal
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the tergum; dorsal ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tergal
1. pertaining to a tergum [adj] - See also: tergum
Medical Definition of Tergal
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tergal
Literary usage of Tergal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The tergal plates are twelve or thirteen in number, whereof the first is very
email, the second enormously expanded laterally, and the last, also enlarged ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Opisthosoma consisting of only ten somites, which have no tergal and sternal ...
the prae prosoma; /, ventral surface the three tergal plates of the g, ..."
3. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia: With Figures of All the Species by Charles Darwin (1854)
"Traces are just visible of crests for the attachment of the tergal depressor
muscles. 5. ... tergal ..."
4. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1914)
"In front of the seventh tergum from the end, either one ot more tergal sclerites
may be traced; these are usually not provided with lateral laminae and may ..."
5. An Investigation of Evolution in Chrysomelid Beetles of the Genus Leptinotarsa by William Lawrence Tower (1906)
"These are designated the outer, middle, and inner tergal centers, and they exist
as an anterior and posterior series (text-figs. 7 and 8). ..."
6. ... Report of the United States Entomological Commission by United States Entomological commission (1883)
"... and is pleural, the clypeus and labrum being the tergal portion of the segment;
while the remainder of the original or primitive segments are obsolete, ..."
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