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Webster 1913 Edition

Tergum

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Ter′gum

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Noun.

;

pl.

Terga

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[L., the back.]

(Zool.)

(a)

The back of an animal.

(b)

The dorsal piece of a somite of an articulate animal.

(c)

One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a cirriped.