Discrimen
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Discrimen is a noun meaning (entomology) A visible dividing line where two structures come together.
Meaning
(entomology) A visible dividing line where two structures come together.
More Meanings
- A distinction, particularity, or distinguishing feature.
- A crisis or turning point; A situation that changes how the future will unfold.
- (theology) A pattern or organizing principle that forms the basis of moral judgements.
Example Sentences
In a number of forms the discrimen appears to bifurcate at its anterior end, as well seen in Odontosphex.
But civil war creates as many boundaries as it destroys: its keynote is division, and it is itself a discrimen.
Mid-ventrally the sternopleurites unite in a suture, the discrimen, whose inflection forms the very high transparent lamella of the discrimen.
The eusternum may be reduced to form a tiny furcasternum (= to the portion sometimes called the sternellum) or an internal cryptosternum indicated externally by a single median, longitudinal line called the discrimen.
Word Forms
- discrimina
- discrimens
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dichotomy, differentia, disjunction, dimorphism, diergism, vicariance.
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