embolium

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noun

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

OriginNew Latin embolium ← Ancient Greek ἐμβόλιον →
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Meanings

nounembolium (plural embolia)

plural embolia

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

    Hemelytral membranes small, not reaching apex of abdomen; costal margin of embolium rather evenly arcuate, hardly ampliate toward base. Connexivum well exposed, segmental angles rectilinear, not at all produced.

    1965 September, Herbert Ruckes, “Several New Genera and Species of Discocephaline Pentatomids (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)”, in Journal of the New York Entomological Society, volume LXXIII, number 3, New York, N.Y.: New York Entomological Society, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 117

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekἐμβόλιον“insertion”
  2. New Latinembolium
  3. Englishembolium

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

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