procerite

English

Etymology

From pro- +‎ Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras, “horn”) +‎ -ite.

Noun

procerite (plural procerites)

1. (zoology) The segment next to the flagellum of the antennae of crustaceans.
   • 1881, ‎Hermann Schlegel, Notes from the Leyden Museum - Volumes 3-4, page 133:

     Merocerite or second joint also furnished with a few yellow hairs, like the carpocerite; terminal filament or procerite a little shorter than the carapace, multiarticulate and provided with long yellow verticilated hairs .

   • 1882, William Aitcheson Haswell, ‎Australian Museum, Catalogue of the Australian Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crustacea, page ix:

     a third, fourth, and fifth joints, narrower than the preceding, and called respectively the ischiocerite, merocerite and carpocerite, and articulated with the last an extremely long many-jointed flagellum or procerite.

   • 1888, Thomas Henry Huxley, A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals:

     In this genus, the basicerite, ischiocerite, and merocerite are much thicker and stronger than the corresponding joints of any of the other appendages; and in the closely allied Scyllarus, the facial region of which is, on the whole, similarly constructed, these joints become extremely expanded and flattened, and are succeeded by no procerite.

   • 1888, G. Lovell Gulland, “The Sense of Touch in Astacus”, in Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, volume 9, page 162:

     There is a large tuft of tactile setæ at the base of the procerite, and a few are continued from that point down the outer margin of the carpocerite; but all the setæ below that point on the upper surface are fringing setæ, as that part is covered by the antennules and the squame.

Anagrams

• receiptor