alitrunk
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin ala (“wing”) + truncus (“trunk”).
Noun[edit]
alitrunk (plural alitrunks)
- (zoology) The segment of an insect's body to which the wings are attached; the thorax or mesosoma.
- 1818, William Kirby, William Spence, An Introduction To Entomology: Or, Elements Of The Natural History Of Insects:
- Alitrunk of Cossus ligniperda
Translations[edit]
segment of an insect's body to which the wings are attached
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References[edit]
- “alitrunk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.