sedecimarticulate

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Latin sedecim + articulate

Adjective[edit]

sedecimarticulate (not comparable)

  1. (entomology) Having sixteen joints.
    • 1856, William Clark, transl., Handbook of Zoology, volume 1, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, translation of original by Jan van der Hoeven, page 342:
      Mycetophila. Meig. Antennæ porrect, cylindrical, sedecimarticulate.
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