schizogastry
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A specific physical condition where an organism's ventral (underbelly) plate is split or divided into two separate plates by a transverse band.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The key demonstrates the impossibility of the system: it starts with errors and it continues with the use of characters that are not comprehended (the superfamily Palaeacaroidea is said to be the only group in which the gnathosoma is visible from above, although this character is present in the Par¬ hypochthoniidae and in some Enarthronota too; the diagastry of the Nanhermanniidae, the pseudodiagastry of the Eulohmanniidae, and the schizogastry of the Epilohmanniidae are used as one character; etc.)."
- "A horizontal suture behind genital piate (schizogastry). Lateroabdominal gland present [...]"
- "A horizontal suture behind genital plate (schizogastry): latero-abdominal gland present ... Family Epilohmanniidae"
- "The conditions of ventral sclerotization extend from the primitive condition of agastry in the Palaeacaroidea, to diagastry in the Nanhermanniidae, pseudodiagastry in Eolohmannidae, schiogastry in the Epilohmanniidae, and varied conditions of eugastry in the higher oribatids."
- "The separation of the genito-aggential region from the ano-adanal region by a transverse scissure in the Epilohmanniidae is termed schizogastry."
Etymology
From schizo- + -gastry.