Harpagone
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Harpagone is a noun meaning (entomology, usually in the plural) The clasping organ of male genitalia, one of the gonopods.
Meaning
(entomology, usually in the plural) The clasping organ of male genitalia, one of the gonopods.
Example Sentences
...a pair of primitively two-segmented arms, the gonopods (claspers, forcipate claspers, anterior gonapophyses, pregonites, harpagones, parameres) arising posterolaterally on sternite 9.
Word Forms
- harpagones
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gonopod, phallosome, gonapophysis, gonopore, phallomere, phallobase.
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