Prefemur

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of ischiopodite.

    "Diagnostic characters such as the number of teeth on the coxosternal tooth-plates, tergite margination, and the number of spines on the ultimate leg prefemur showed high variability, as has previously been recognized in various species of Scolopendra [30 ]."

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"Diagnostic characters such as the number of teeth on the coxosternal tooth-plates, tergite margination, and the number of spines on the ultimate leg prefemur showed high variability, as has previously been recognized in various species of Scolopendra [30 ]."

Etymology

From pre- + femur.

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