procerite
English edit
Etymology edit
From pro- + Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras, “horn”) + -ite.
Noun edit
procerite (plural procerites)
- (zoology) The segment next to the flagellum of the antennae of crustaceans.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “procerite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)