Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word CERCUS
CERCUS
Definitions of CERCUS
- (entomology) Structures on the end of the abdomen of most insects, sometimes long, hairlike sensory organs and sometimes smaller and rigid.
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using CERCUS in a Sentence
- Cerci (: cercus) are paired appendages usually on the rear-most segments of many arthropods, including insects and symphylans.
- The genus comprises large-sized sciapodines mostly with a strongly sinuate m-cu and simple digitiform cercus.
- amplificatus is the only species of Ceratopogonidae to possess this many antennal flagellomeres as well as an elongate, slender cercus.
- The surstyli are strongly asymmetrical with only slightly asymmetrical superior lobes; part of the postero-ventral sternite IX is strongly asymmetrical; tergite IX is elongated and the cercus is narrow.
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