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- Japanese · borrowed from節足らず
- English todayfushi tarazu
Borrowed from Japanese 節足らず (fushi-tarazu, literally “segment-deficient”), in reference to the absence of parasegments when not expressed.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
fushi tarazu
Today it means: A Drosophila pair-rule gene that is responsible for the development of even-numbered (i.e. half of the) parasegments. Full definition →
Japanese 節足らず