embolium

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A narrow piece separating the costa and corium in certain insects of the suborder Heteroptera.

Word forms

embolium embolia

Etymology

From New Latin embolium, from Ancient Greek ἐμβόλιον (embólion, “insertion”).

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