terminalia
See also: Terminalia
English
editNoun
editterminalia pl (plural only)
- (entomology) The hindmost segments of the abdomen of an insect, modified for reproduction.
- 1981, Manual of Nearctic Diptera, volume 1, →ISBN, page 37:
- The terminalia consist of the terminal complex of modified genital and anal segments, plus any adjacent segments that show modifications for copulation and oviposition.
- 2005, “Revision of New World Species of Shore Fly Genus Discomyza Meigen (Diptera: Ephydridae)”, in Annals of the Entomological Society of America[1], volume 98, number 4, page 431:
- Part of the documentation includes the first detailed illustrations and descriptions of structures of the male terminalia.
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editEtymology
editBorrowed from translingual Terminalia, from Late Latin terminālis.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editterminalia f (plural terminalie)
- any plant in the Terminalia taxonomic genus
Further reading
edit- terminalia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
editAdjective
editterminālia
References
edit- terminalia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “terminalia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “terminalia”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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