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/ˈɛlɪtɹɒn/ · noun
A sheath or outer covering, especially around the spinal cord or over the hindwings of certain insects..
In a corner, the Darkling Beetle rustles in its Cage, its Elytra the same unforgiving white as the great sand-waste call’d ‘Kalahari’ lying north of here […]
[…] the elytra covering the hind wings of the firefly lift like a light leather, suppler than any other beetle’s.
Use elytron when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Elytron means A sheath or outer covering, especially around the spinal cord or over the hindwings of certain insects..
Common synonyms include wingcase, wing case.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In a corner, the Darkling Beetle rustles in its Cage, its Elytra the same unforgiving white as the great sand-waste call’d ‘Kalahari’ lying north of here […]
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