peripneustic
Meanings
adj
- Of one of the categories of hemipneustic tracheal systems, in which the spiracles are in incomplete rows along each side of the body, as in the holopneustic arrangement, but with slightly fewer pairs of spiracles.
Word forms
Etymology
From περι- (peri-, “peri”) and πνευστικός (pneustikós).
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