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Meanings of elytron in English

Russian
надкрылья
Portuguese
élitro
Spanish
elitro
Catalan
èlitre

Paired dorsal scale in annelids.

Related terms
надкрылья
Portuguese
élitro
Spanish
elitro

Either of the horny front wings in beetles and some other insects which cover and protect the functional hind wings.

élitro
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Examples for "elytra"
Examples for "elytra"
1
Among their findings, they discovered that the beetle's fused elytra were interlocked.
The Guardian
2
The elytra of the male are much longer than the abdomen.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of...
3
There are a few short hairs at the rounded tip of the elytra.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Weste...
4
Our insect bears a remarkable similarity to a Surinam Buprestis, with serrated elytra.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of...
5
What remains is a kind of golden shell, formed of the two conjoined elytra.
Social Life in the Insect World
Usage of elytron in English
1
The mutation in vest resulted in a clear phenotype in the CPBs, which developed to adulthood with no hindwing and elytron formed.
Pubmed
Translations for elytron
Portuguese
élitro
Elytron through the time