chaetome

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noun

The bristly hairlike appendages growing from the limbs of various mite species, taken as a single bodily organ.

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Meanings

nounchaetome (plural chaetomes)

plural chaetomes

  1. biologyThe bristly hairlike appendages growing from the limbs of various mite species, taken as a single bodily organ.

    In the chaetome (setation) of Phthiracaroidea legs the number of solenidia is given in parenthesis and follows the number of simple setae […]

    2003, “New species of ptyctimous oribatid mites from the Neotropical region”, in Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, volume 49, number 49, page 261

Origin

From chaeta + -ome.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

octaheme
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