Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mesopleuron

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: meso-pleu-ron
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The lateral surface of the mesothorax

Example Sentences

"In most chalcidoids, the mesopleura have a groove for the femora, but encyrtids lack this groove (as do the signiphorids, tanaostigmatids, some aphelinids, and some eupelmids)."

Etymology

From meso- + pleuron.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: meso

Inflected Forms

mesopleura (plural)

Questions

What does mesopleuron mean?: The lateral surface of the mesothorax
Where does mesopleuron come from?: From meso- + pleuron.

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