trichosor

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noun

Any of certain wart-like structures along the wing edges of some lacewings that bear prominent, dense, stiff hairs or setae (macrotrichia), used to diagnose taxonomic relationships among extant and extinct lacewings.

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Meanings

nountrichosor (plural trichosors)

plural trichosors

  1. anatomyAny of certain wart-like structures along the wing edges of some lacewings that bear prominent, dense, stiff hairs or setae (macrotrichia), used to diagnose taxonomic relationships among extant and extinct lacewings.

    […] trichosors absent except in the Nymphidae.

    1977, Augustus Daniel Imms, O.W. Richards, R.G. Davies, Imms' General Textbook of Entomology, volume 2, page 808
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