chaetome

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

chaeta +‎ -ome

Noun[edit]

chaetome (plural chaetomes)

  1. (biology) The bristly hairlike appendages growing from the limbs of various mite species, taken as a single bodily organ.
    • 2003, “New species of ptyctimous oribatid mites from the Neotropical region”, in Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, volume 49, number 49, page 261:
      In the chaetome (setation) of Phthiracaroidea legs the number of solenidia is given in parenthesis and follows the number of simple setae []

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