Mesothorax

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The middle of the three divisions of the thorax of an insect, bearing the middle pair of legs and the first pair of wings.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The middle of the three segments of the thorax of an insect
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The middle segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of coleoptera.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In entomology, the second or middle one of the three divisions of the thorax, situated between the prothorax and the metathorax, and bearing the second pair of legs and the first pair of wings. When very large, as in dipterous insects, it is simply called the thorax.
    • Word Usage
    "Hypopleura: in Diptera, the space over the middle and hind coxa, between the metapleura and pteropleura: the side of the metasternum: the mesepimeron of the mesothorax."
    Variant
    coleoptera   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    borax    metathorax   
     
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