Meanings
endite1
plural endites
- An additional lobe on the inner side of the protopodite of a crustacean limb.
Antonyms: exite
- One of the mouthparts of a spider or other arachnids, specifically the lobe of the palpal coxa lateral to the labium.
Synonyms: maxilla
endite2
present singular third person endites · participle present enditing · participle past endited · past endited
- obsoleteObsolete form of indite.
From a VVriter of Books, our Author is already dvvindled to a Preface-monger, and from Prefaces I am confident he may in a ſhort time be improved to endite Tickets for the Bear-Garden.
1672, [Andrew Marvell], The Rehearsal Transpros’d: Or, Animadversions upon a Late Book, Entituled, A Preface, Shewing what Grounds there are of Fears and Jealousies of Popery, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 4
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn additional lobe on the inner side of the protopodite of a crustacean limb.
nounOne of the mouthparts of a spider or other arachnids, specifically the lobe of the palpal coxa lateral to the labium.
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endite. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/endite
“endite.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/endite. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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