a distinct region of the body of an arthropod, such as the head, thorax, or abdomen of an insect
Word origin
C19: from Greek: something arranged, from tassein to put in order
Examples of 'tagmata' in a sentence
tagmata
Segments are arranged into three tagmata.
Cédric Aria, Jean-Bernard Caron 2017, 'Mandibulate convergence in an armoured Cambrian stem chelicerate', BMC Evolutionary Biologyhttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-017-1088-7. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)