pteromorph
Zoology
noun
Either of a pair of hinged wing-like appendages attached to the sides of the cephalothorax in certain mites.
Origin
1950s.
- protopathic
- protopathic bias
- proto-patriarch
- proto-patriarchal
- protopectin
- protopectinase
- protoperithecial
- protoperithecium
- protopetroleum
- protophenomenon
- protophilic
- protophloem
- protophylic
- protophyll
- Protophyta
- protophyte
- protophytic
- protopine
- protoplanet
- protoplanetary
- protoplasm
- protoplasmal
- protoplasmatic
- protoplasmic
- protoplasmically